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...Some of them, to be sure, are a bit elaborate for the earthy tunes that inspired them but for the most part they are well adapted. Any complaints will come from the specialist in ditties and native folk music. They will mourn omissions, but the minstrel's own apologia must answer them: "I should like to have taken ten, twenty, thirty years more in the preparation of this volume...
Pastor John Roach Straton hastened to write out a 5,000-word apologia pro sua vita. There was no Pentecostalism rife in Calvary Bapist Church; the woman of Lindbergh Monday was a victim of the general Manhattan hysteria or was ill; the five deacons were fractious and had better have resigned; they were "making a grandstand play for publicity." He concluded: "In closing I wish to say that I was duly elected as the engineer of this Gospel train here at Calvary Baptist Church. And throughout the ten years of my leadership the overwhelming majority of the officers...
...following apologia is typical alike of the book and the man: "If I have exhibited a questionable dead mermaid in my museum, it should not be overlooked that I have also exhibited much . . . about which there could be no doubt, and I should hope that a little clap-trap occasionally . . . might find an offset in a wilderness of wonderful, instructive, and amusing realities...
...apologia Colonel Lawrence writes finely in his preface: "They [the Arabs] were as unstable as water, and, like water would perhaps finally prevail. Since the dawn of life, in successive waves they had been dashing themselves against the coast of flesh. Each wave was broken, but, like the sea, wore away ever so little of the granite on which it failed. . . . One such wave (and not the least) I raised...
...February number of the Advocate contains a fair portion of thoughtful and entertaining writing. The pages to which most readers at Harvard will first turn are those devoted to Mr. Donald Gibbs' "Sawdust Trails in the College"--a kind of "apologia", it may be conjectured, for a recent remark which attained a wider currency than its author intended. Mr. Gibbs' subject is the 'student conference' which too often reaches, in the name of a free discussion of educational problems, no higher result than the training up of the student delegates who attend toward a "future of fair Rotarian godliness...