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...than the authors that she was helping run a roto-lactor. Some 40 other high-school kids, delighted to be in the publishing game at similar wages, sent out Mr. Flumiani's oleaginous form letters. The "season paragraph" told the author that the time (any old time) was ripe to bursting for his book to appear. The "fighting paragraph" bucked him up if he seemed to feel his work was unworthy of publication. The "action paragraph" read: "We believe that this book is an original. It reveals an individual mind. It possesses the characteristics of an unusual contribution...
...went on with his exercises and his appointed rounds, ruled his fleet. Not so confident of the future as he were some of his pals in Washington. Said one of them pessimistically: "Right now, I think that Admiral Kimmel has a much better chance of living to a ripe old age than Tommy Hart...
...time is ripe for a momentous Catholic effort in the U.S. . . . Protestantism - especially American Protestantism -is now so doctrinally decayed as to be incapable of offering any serious opposition. . . . Except for isolated 'fundamentalists' - and these are pretty thoroughly discredited and without intellectual leader ship - Catholicism would cut through Protestantism as through so much butter." Dr. Maynard is an old hand at stirring up churchmen. As a 19-year-old English man he came to the U.S. in 1909 to study for the Congregational ministry, was promptly fired from his first pulpit for preaching a sermon on "Silly fools...
...critics wondered, for example, about Arch-Tory War Secretary Captain H. D. R. Margesson, who had once been Neville Chamberlain's Jim Farley. They wondered about Arch-Tory Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, who had publicly declared that the time was not ripe for Britain to invade Europe. They wondered about Arch-Tory Aircraft Production Minister Lieut. Colonel J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, who had been accused of expressing the wish that the Germans and Russians would exterminate each other...
...They have just put the "old preacher" on the morning local when the Rev. William Spence (Fredric March) and his pretty bride (Martha Scott) arrive to take over their first parish. To the ardent young pastor, brimful of Methodism, the whistle-stop town of Laketon, Iowa (circa 1904) looks ripe for good works. To his comfortably nurtured, loving wife, its rutted streets, clapboard buildings, grass-roots manners seem as meager as her husband's yearly salary...