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...Theodore Roosevelt would have loudly branded such accusations as a "pack of lies" the day after they were made. A Calvin Coolidge would never have given them the dignity of his attention. But President Hoover is no Roosevelt with a brazen power to shout down the other fellow, no Coolidge with a skin time-toughened to public criticism. Three aspects of the Kelley charges made them especially obnoxious to Mr. Hoover: 1) they dealt with Oil, that horrid substance which so blackened the Harding Administration; 2) they appeared in the World, of all newspapers the one whose good...
...Roosevelt was denounced as an enemy of the island people. After his appointment his book was burned in protest. Because the Senate had failed to confirm his nomination, he did not travel to Manila to take up a recess appointment. A more stubborn man might have tried to brazen out this local criticism but not Nominee Roosevelt who explained in his letter of resignation...
Close to the hill where the shrine of St. Louis now stands, ancient Carthaginians had their temple to Moloch, into the fire-blazing pit of whose brazen stomach they dumped children as sacrifices. Julius Caesar planned to rebuild the city. Augustus did so. It grew to have 500,000 population almost as many as before destruction. The Roman massacres of Christians occurred mostly in the 3rd Century A.D. Most famous of the Carthaginian martyr saints were Cyprian, a bishop, and Perpetua, a rich lady who modestly pulled her torn clothes about her sabre-ripped body before she died. The Arabs...
...Edgar Allen Poe, intrigued by a tinkling sound, burst forth in sundry verses of ecstatic onomatopoeia signifying his rapturous delight in "The Bells". Mr. Poe, an authority on bellish noises, expressed supreme content with all sorts of bells--bells that tintinabulated, bells that gushed voluminous euphony, and even brazen alarum bells that shrieked...
...hotel chosen for him by his manager, rang for tea but, knowing no English, failed to make the waiter understand. He shrugged his shoulders, sat down at the piano, played Tea for Two, got what he wanted. His first Manhattan night was spent in a Harlem cabaret listening to brazen jazz which he adores, his second at a musicomedy. Then he started on a tour, played first with the Philadelphia Orchestra, went into Canada, then through the Middle West...