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...Helen was positive that the Chief Justice had said "preserve, maintain and defend," not "preserve, maintain and protect." Finally the movietone was invoked to settle the question. Its sound record proved Helen right, the Chief Justice wrong, on both counts. Mr. Taft, highly diverted, said he didn't think it was important. Perhaps, after he has sworn in nine presidents, like Chief Justice Marshall, or even seven, like Chief Justice Taney, his memory of the lines will not fail Chief Justice Taft...
...back if the Liberals win 84 seats, and would receive an additional pound for every seat they win above that number. Inversely, if one sells Liberals at 80, and if only 70 candidates of that party are returned to the House, one pockets a crisp "tenner" ($48.60). To guess wrong in either buying or selling is to lose a pound a seat...
...officers from Tid-worth barracks had, it appeared, ridden to hounds and played cricket with Captain Barker. "He ascribed his difficulty in throwing the ball to War wounds," said Dr. Farr of the Cricket Club last week, "I may have sometimes thought, mind you, that Barker was built 'all wrong.' He was. But there again, the poor feller was so terribly bashed in the War! Gad, I can't think of old Barker yet as a woman! The thing sticks and won't go down...
...Meaning of Right and Wrong". Professor Perry, Emerson...
Eighteen thousand people can't be wrong. His is an adventure that has fast become obscured by dogmatic controversy. If one can appear in the midst of a warfare of creeds, rituals, and symbols, bringing a sincere fascination to a body of listeners, many of whom are incurious to investigate the intricacies of twentieth century faith,--if this is true, then at least a vestige of imagination and idealism prevails...