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...Paris where he concluded My Experiences thus: "I hastened over to call on M. Clemenceau. To my mind he was the greatest of French civil officials. . . . When we met he was much affected and indeed demonstrative. We fell into each other's arms, choked up and had to wipe our eyes. We had no differences to discuss that...
...argued against Chicago: "It is governed by two heathen Gods: Mars, the God of Battle; and Bacchus, God of the Bottle." This alliteration was well received. Finally Edgar Wallace argued for Chicago- (it was pleasantly impossible at times to tell who was for what): "The lynch law will eventually wipe out those deplorable men who sit in the seat of government." Having amused themselves thus for a whole evening, members of the Cambridge Union voted 171 to 143 that Chicago must experience the fate of Carthage...
...enemies are records and people with good memories, for legends depend on lack of evidence. Because she has become a legend in her own lifetime, Mary Pickford feels these truths strike home. Shrewdest business woman in pictures, she has been secretly buying her old pictures to destroy them, to wipe out, except in the imagination of future generations, "America's Sweetheart" of 1910 to 1930, the golden-ringleted girl who, in the changing fashions of two decades, wept, smiled, loved, pantomimed in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Poor Little Rich Girl, Daddy Long Legs, Madame Butterfly. Interviewed last week...
...Soviet statecraft this same ability of the Slav to act "without limit" has resulted in such daring extremes of policy as the attempt to wipe out the whole kulak or "rich peasant" class, complete the Five Year Plan in four years, and suppress all political parties except one, the Communist Party...
...wider recognition that now is the time to think and act for the upbuilding of society would bring about more anniversary celebrations of this progressive type. Incidentally, it would wipe out the reproach sometimes attaching to ultraconservative organizations which had their inception in the deeds of revolutionaries. That familiar saying, "The radicals of one generation are the conservatives of the next," would then be less often applicable...