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...idea that any "motherly soul" can show a varsity boat a few pointers on rowing, there may be a minimum of truth in it; but in actual practice it is absurd. If anybody can ride in the proposed coaching-excursion boats, who will there be left to fill the observation cars at New London? Peanut galleries are all right in their proper place, but there is a limit...
...York's Democratic Senator Robert Wagner, author of the dead bill, retorted: "The President has failed every man out pounding the pavement in search of work. . . . Before we ever got into water, the Administration was offered a sound horse with which to ride through the storm. It refused it. It insisted on riding the decrepit and balky creature which is the existing Federal employment service...
...with an air of abstraction, he heard Mr. Capone's young doctor and nurses testify that, down with pleurisy, he had been in grave condition during February and March 1929. Then Judge Wilkerson listened to other witnesses who related how the supposedly bed-ridden gangster had taken an airplane ride to Bimini (bootleg base), a boat trip to Nassau, attended the Sharkey-Stribling fight in Miami, the Hialeah races. "It is evident," commented Judge Wilkerson, "that someone is lying...
...invite you to ride on our railroad." "The three Commandments that guide our engineers...
...worried about split infinitives? If such a sentence as ''Our object is to further cement trade relations" gives you pause, hark to Mr. Thurber: "My own way out of all this confusion would be simply to say 'Our object is to let trade relations ride,' that is, give them up, let them go." Should you say, "I feel bad" or ''I feel badly"? Says Thurber: "As a general thing, if the illness or pain really exists, and is acute, it is better to use the shorter word 'bad,' because it is more easily said and will bring assistance quicker...