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...ever denied his son anything? Why, Jack's friends called him Francis because of his rich ways. And now to turn thief. If Jack had asked he would have given him that bundle of gewgaws. But to run off with them to give them to the Church-bah! A vision, did the bishop say? The bishop would make him give the goods back? Visions like that would land a boy in the lockup...
...TIME, May 10, p. 20, you published an article on the financial difficulties of young Cornelius Vanderbilt's newspapers, in which the following sentence occurs: "Ever since a bullet-headed, thick-jowled Vanderbilt stood with arms folded in front of his hearth and said: 'The public? Bah! The public be damned...
...Afterwards he did a strange thing for a Vanderbilt. Ever since a bullet-headed, thick-jowled Vanderbilt stood with arms folded in front of his hearth and said, "The public? Bah! The public be damned . . . ", Vanderbilts have been press-shy. Relentless editors have made the phrase more than a sneer?made is a symbol, like the legend under a carriage crest, of Vanderbilt arrogance from the day of its Staten Island patroonship to the day when a Vanderbilt turnout swerved onto a crowded sidewalk that the fetlocks of its four strawberry roans might not be sullied in a puddle...
...during the War we frequently made the mistake of underestimating the importance of public sentiment as a world factor. If that was a mistake at the zenith of our power, it would have represented nothing less than a crime in our present situation." Fascist Deputy von Graefe bellowed: "Bah! These trick explanations! You are doing parlor tricks...
...United States Senate, alone of all the great deliberative bodies of the earth, has the right to unlimited debate. Deliberative, bah. . . . The Senate passed 100 bills in 100 minutes. Not time to read their titles. And they call it a deliberative body...