Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I have, I hope, as much common sense and rational balance as the average man; and I cannot understand why you choose to compliment Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin on the asserted ground that his statements often "have power" because they are as "simple and transparently sincere" as the scriptural text you quote. (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927).* To illustrate my meaning, suppose that a man says with absolute simplicity and sincerity: "Do not smoke tobacco." In that statement there is no power; but there is power in the statement: "Go and sin no more." Yet I defy anyone to prove...
...leading philanthropists. The cost of tickets for card parties, bazaars, etc., pockmark the old stipend. A politician has to be charitable and charity tugs not at the heart, but the purse. ". . . Our extravagances are expressed before the galleries. No sightseers observe the Cabinet in argument, excitement or perplexity. You cannot tune in on the White House static. Before a Presidential Proclamation, the controversial clashes have been hushed in the sanctity of the Cabinet Chambers. The Ancient Order of Sphinxes or a Convention of Lynnhaven Oysters is no more efficiently safeguarded from eager ears than the Cabinet. . . . "The worst that...
...aimed at the British score, content with mere de facto stabilization of the franc (TIME, Jan. 3, 1927). Therefore Signer Mussolini did well, last week, when he pocketed proud hopes of setting the lira up beside the pound. Italy, a young kingdom with cheap labor for its chief resource, cannot match an accomplishment which is straining even the strong sinews of the British Empire...
Commented The Nation, intellectual weekly: "Riches and power?and orders for shoe polish. There was once a man who talked differently. 'Blessed are the meek,' he said. 'Why take ye thought for raiment?' 'Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.' 'Go and sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor.' 'Verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.' 'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.' And in one terrible passage...
When they were done Mr. Coath, still eating, declared: "I cannot but remark on the beautiful sentiment of simplicity, honesty of purpose, and integrity demonstrated here tonight in the hearts of the men and women who testified. It is one of the most gratifying spectacles in the history of my school board experience of six years, and thank God for the real, human, honest people in the Chicago public schools...