Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thrown out. Last fortnight he put through an order to Sergeant Major Charles Savinau for a case of hand grenades. The sergeant major told his colonel that he thought the grenades were wanted for no good end; the colonel called in the police. Savinau delivered the grenades anyway, after taking the precaution of emptying out the powder. But when he arrived with them, his eyes popped as he met a sublieutenant also lugging in a case of grenades...
...North for the purpose of training intelligent and devoted young men and women for work in the cultural and religious wilds of the deep South. . . . Perhaps our expensive personnel could be withdrawn from the foreign field (where the natives are losing interest in our brand of salvation, anyway) and used for this work. The conversion of Mississippi or Arkansas, say, ought to be just as pleasing to God as the plucking of some Chinese province from the burning, and will probably involve a good deal more sacrifice and suffering...
...They dump ashes in the streets. Then there are the handbills. A man can give out 1,000 handbills in an hour. Nobody is interested in them. We do our part, but we don't seem to get much credit. Anyway the streets always seem to be dirty. But the thing about it is, they dirty 'em and we clean 'em up, and they dirty 'em again. . . ." Socialites heartily applauded Street Cleaner Mark O'Connell...
...commercialized war against society and that anyone who fights in that war is a fool. I told the men what those who were at Norfolk were there because they had fought in a losing fight against society, in a war in which almost all the participants lose anyway. I pointed out to the men that they had a much bigger war ahead of them than any war they had ever been in, that is to say, a fight against themselves to get on the right side of the ledger...
...increase in the pay envelopes all along the line. This means added costs. It also means less profits for stockholders. The latter aspect will not cause much gnashing of teeth or weeping nowadays, for stockholders as a class are supposed to be a relatively small number of persons anyway. They are expected to benefit some day when prosperity comes back...