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Plainly it was no wonder that George V tried, as Britons learned he did, to dissuade Prime Minister MacDonald up to the very last moment from advising (i. e. forcing) His Majesty to prorogue Parliament and throw Britain's political future into the General Election pot...
...their Americanism, their Christian standards of decency, dropped into French customs and came back to import them into the United States." Nevertheless, officers of the Legion, feeling particularly insulted by the expression "staggering drunks," roared at Dr. Wilson. Besides attacking the American Legion in Kansas City, Dr. Wilson took pot shots at the late Dwight Whitney Morrow, John Jacob Raskob and Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick. Defending Bishop James Cannon Jr., he said: "He saved $3,000 and placed it in a savings bank where it was drawing 3% interest when Wall Street men of Jewish persuasion argued him into investing...
...cordial shop is easily identified. It is a small, neat store in the window of which are some ginger ale or nonalcoholic liqueur bottles, or a pot of flowers. No longer is liquor on display inside; cautious vendors now keep it under a counter, behind a partition, or in an ice box out back. In some stores a prospective purchaser must bring an introduction or answer questions, but in most of them all comers are served with cheerful uniformity...
...novels and plays often make the best cinemas. A fair example is 24 Hours. Louis Bromfield's book receives substance in the cinema. Its overtheatrical characters, given faces, bodies, legs and voices, cease being utterly unreal and their problems serve some purpose beyond boiling an author's pot...
...steadfast, he surveys civilization with a calm and rationalistic eye, preaches to an increasing congregation the virtues of Reason. Russell's lucidity has rarely faltered, but of late years his published sermons have seemed at times a little thin. Now he admits his recent books were "mainly pot-boilers"; but says of The Scientific Outlook: "For my part, though I says it as shouldn't, I think it is a very good book." Its purpose: "To show up all the scientists who talk about religion, all those who make superstition a substitute for science." Russell obviously enjoyed writing...