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...column), "The parable is one that has often been quoted with smug exultation in needy homes, in great houses with lamentable quakings. It has to do with a camel, a rich man's son, Heaven, the eye of a needle." And further on, middle of next column, you repeat: "Mr. Rockefeller is familiar with the parable about the rich...
...chief ideal of the American people is idealism. I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists. That is the only motive to which they ever give any strong and lasting reaction. No newspaper can be a success which fails to appeal to that element of our national life...
...permitted myself to recall a proverb which I begged them not to mention lest it should create a slight coolness be- tween the Chancellor of the Exchequer and myself. But, as I have mentioned it to him today, I may perhaps repeat it to the House. I said to those with whom I talked: 'We have an English proverb: Why bark yourself when you keep...
...offense plunged, pounded, plowed. Illinois sank back to third in the Conference standing. Score: Minne- sota 20, Illinois 7. Who writes this "stuff" for you? If this is a specimen of his sport news, better eliminate all of it. The phrases used are entirely unjustifiable. I want to repeat that my subscription to TIME is canceled. C. J. RATZLAFF. That the Gophers did "wound" Red Grange, did "crash" him, did "heap upon him" no eye-witness will deny. Football is a rough game, but a casualty does not necessarily denote "dirty play."-ED. Undignified...
Then, though the moment whispered "Caution! You're on good behavior!" the evil genius of the French communists urged "Up and at 'em!" Upon the first appearance of a real, live Soviet ambassador, the streets of Paris rang with cries of "Vivent Ies soviets!" No wonder French Republicans repeat the Arab fable of the camel which, when granted leave to stick his head inside the hut to shield it from the cold, grew insolent and dispossessed the owner altogether...