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...disposition, he is inclined to be dyspeptic. But, overcoming physical difficulties, he has a way of applying himself to the business in hand and bringing forth a thoroughly sound and common sense conclusion. The late Senator Ollie James of Kentucky once compared him to a snapping turtle. "He looks harmless, but just prod him once and see how quick he'll bite...
That indefinite day in early June when students of high and preparatory schools are released with diplomas would be no more critical in national affairs than the first of January or the Fourth of July were it not for the Commencement address. Once a harmless diversion which elders could not deny themselves, the address has become a dangerous habit more threatening than the Fourth of July oration...
...truths as clearly as the one that the liberals and radicals of today are the conservatives to tomorrow there is little likelihood that the All-American Conference will either stamp out the radicalism of the present or live a long life. But even though its futility makes it harmless, there are strong reasons for branding the association with public disapproval. To organize the clubs and unions of twenty million people into a machine whose avowed purpose is the suppression of all ideas which conflict with the status quo is but another means of accomplishing the aims of medieval monarchs...
Clifford started in the box for 1927 and kept the hits scattered and harmless. McGill found him for a triple in the second inning but was caught trying to stretch it into a home run. Again in the fourth two singles and a bad miscue of Ultman's opened the way for the first Worcester run, but Clifford was still safe...
...American movies to the Orient has already done untold harm in revealing to an unsuspecting people the depths of American degradation. If on top of these pictures there arrived a flood of more magazines in an understandable American, and a deluge of Hearst papers the thoroughly moral and harmless races of the world might well rise in horror in exterminate a degenerate nations...