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...will readily understand that it is not now my intention to prejudge the issues which remain to be developed in this investigation. I recognize that you are entitled to a full and fair hearing. But as there is no way by which you can divest yourself of the interest you have personally in the investigation, I can see no way but for you to retire as Attorney General, and I am therefore compelled to request your resignation...
...reasoning of a Bolshevik is beyond the understanding of healthy people and nations. Even before the war the Russians were eccentric. At one moment the Russian was the polished European, strongely under the influence of French civilization; and a moment later he was the suave, but savage Oriental from Central Asia. It was this constant struggle between the East and West whose outward manifestations made the Russian so difficult to understand...
...wants to understand the game of football, assuming that he cannot be a player himself, he had better go to see a football game rather than read a volume about football and look at photographs of great football games or players. In like manner we believe that if a man is to have a real enthusiasm about painting, he must see great paintings. It is not sufficient to read books about them and study the subject of art wholly by means of photographic reproduction. It has certainly been our experience here that as we get more and better pictures...
Said he: "A man should be the judge of the guests of his own house and it is not only irregular but impertinent for others to seek admission. No offence can possibly be taken by Japan if this is done in a manly way for reasons which she will understand. She excludes the Chinese and Koreans from Japan, although they are racially not very divergent...
...gushing amours to the artist's sister. Romantic, she believes his lovemaking goes no further than moonlight and roses; but a kiss he snatches at a midnight rendezvous opens her eyes. She considers him carnally voluptuous. Then a threatened operation for the vapid mother makes this flapper understand how precious Mother and her fogey ideas really are. Bathos...