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...Then he stooped, bowed his head, and struck. The white ball flew 156 yards to the green, bounded exuberantly toward the cup. Mr. Rockefeller shouted for joy. He traversed at a brisk trot the distance that separated him from his putt. The ball, once more obedient, hung on the lip of the cup. He tapped it in for a par 3, cut a caper...
...association. They knew that their fellow members understand as well as any merchants in the U. S. the meaning of that fine phrase, and the dry-goods men, as is their wont, responded heartily. Many were the delighted slaps and winks, the chewed cigars, the roguish stories passed from lip to lip amid shouts of, "Brother, you surely made a sale with that one" . . . "Let me tell you a red-hot one" . . . "Now down south they say" . . . "The one about the man with a harelip and the woman with St. Vitus' dance. . . ." It is true that among...
...Washington the last time, I called on the President; and I thought I ought to thank him, not only for his interest in the cathedral, but for his repeatedly expressed attitude on the subject of religion. And as I thanked this quiet, reserved man, his upper lip trembled, and he said: 'Mr. White, no nation has ever been able to endure, no nation will be able to endure, without religion...
...other countries in the war. The towns and villages still lie in ruins, but along the entire Poland frontier stretch miles of costly barb wire entanglements through a narrow gap in which the train runs. The Polish side is guarded by a regiment of well uniformed soldiers with their lip sticks and rouged cheeks while on the Russian side there is merely a large wooded arch inscribed with the words Communism destroys frontiers...
...this respect, the college world is only a miniature of the nation at large, and Europe as well. War and reconstruction have discredited liberalism as a philosophy of government; nowhere is it in power. Only politicians pay even lip service to Demos. The prevailing method of government is the dictatorship of a single strong man or of an intelligent minority which maintains itself in power by obscurantist tactics...