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...Dalton might take heart from the remarks of a friend to Wilde's indiscreet hero: "Well, the English can't stand a man who is always saying he is in the right, but they are very fond of a man who admits that he has been in the wrong." Said one M.P. of the temporarily disgraced Dalton: "He'll serve his penance on the back bench for a few months-but mark my words, Hugh will get back...
...Letterman, Hawley is fond of explaining, who originated the system of medical field service now used by every army in the world. When the Civil War began, the Union had no medical service worth the name. There were no litter bearers and no means of taking wounded from the battlefield. At the Battle of Gaines's Mill the Army of the Potomac abandoned more than 2,500 wounded to the Confederates. After the second Battle of Bull Run, dying men lay on the battlefield for five days. The only escape for a wounded man was to be helped from...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. looked like a comer: asked about a rumor that he would get a Justice Department job, Attorney General Tom C.Clark responded: "I can only say that Assistant Attorneys General are always appointed by the Attorney General, and I am very fond of Roosevelt...
Stops and Starts. Far-fetched and solemn jokester though she was, Gertrude Stein as a writer was about as gabby as they come. Maddeningly persistent and maddeningly placid, in Four in America she seems to take all day to say-with many stops and starts, reveries, irrelevancies and fond repetitions-what a good sharp professor could put in a few paragraphs...
...brother, Colonel The Hon. F. H. Cripps, wrote recently: "When Stafford was quite young he was very fond of giving advice to the elder members of his family. This earned him the nickname of 'Dad,' which still sticks to him at home...