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Stevenson had criticized the proposed work of the special assistant to the Attorney-General, who is supposed to keep special records on state employees and find "reasonable doubt" as to their loyalty. Such activity, he said, might "lead to grave peril to the reputations of innocent people...
Lightening the Ship. Great Britain is still in economic peril, he went on. In fact, he had to admit, much of the improvement came not as the result of his last budget, but of lucky breaks in the flow of world economics. Butler's estimates last year had, in fact, proved ludicrously wrong (he had figured on a surplus of ?510 million and had realized only ?88 million). Britain was faced, as brutally as ever, with the choice of producing more and selling more overseas or perishing...
When Thompson died at 48 (in 1907, of tuberculosis), his sole belongings were "a few old pipes and old pens lying in a tin lid" and a nondescript collection of clippings from the Daily Mail (e.g., "Mikado Airs on Japanese Warship-Amusing Scenes"; "The Milk Peril, What Hinders Reform"). But by then, thanks in good part to Editor Meynell (who lived on until 1948), he stood second only to William Butler Yeats as the foremost lyricist...
...pitch balls reflected off the somber, jagged ruins, dusty brick and grimy concrete of windowless, crumbling buildings along the line of march. It said much for a stouthearted people, the pride they had found in their new, battle-tested armies and the unity they had found in their common peril, that they could celebrate amidst such desolation...
...vast numbers who participated in the national election of the other day. If, then, Mr. Kohr dissents from their judgment, concludes that he is governed tyrannically, and decides to obey only those laws which he finds agreeable, what can one say to him but that he proceeds at his peril...