Word: chaff
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...last extremity they can plead that he gave them no cue that his condemnation of Senator Robinson of Arkansas to tar and feathers was made only in "fun." In a speech bristling with denunciations and innuendos it was not their duty to separate the wheat from the chaff. Indeed, if senatorial "fun" of Senator Heflin's brand can be checked by a fear of the "villains" of the press galleries, it is advantageous for the sensibilities of the nation to have the correspondents present...
...daughter & a bookish boy too long boxed up. Philadelphia critics, as well as critics who had taken the pilgrimage from other cities, regretted that there was no consistent loveliness in the score, that Soprano Helen Stanley & Baritone Marcel Salzinger had had to sing alternate measures of beauty and chaff. But the whole they found skillful stimulating, worthy of the Strauss of the tone-poems and the songs far worthier of production than many of the so-called novelties that have found their way into the repertoire of the Metropolitan and the Chicago companies the past few seasons...
...Prime Minister on the following morning walked into the reading room in the press gallery, there to hold a conference with the Parliamentary reporters. As he strode into the room he was greeted with a good-natured yell: "We want Cunliffe-Lister!" Smiling, Mr. Baldwin returned the chaff: "I am glad to have a chance of meeting people who really make and unmake men and Governments. I present myself with some trepidation before you. I think it is extraordinarily kind of you to care to have me among you at this moment, when a vote of censure is overhanging...
...years roll by, experience will teach us to what classes of commodities and to what strata of society installment selling is economically applicable. In the course of time outworn methods will be discarded and new abuses will undoubtedly appear. Is it not the part of wisdom to separate the chaff from the grain, to be on our guard against the obvious dangers, and to eliminate one by one the improper practices until, precisely as in the case of our banking structure, we may be able to establish fairly definite and generally accepted standards for distinguishing the sound from the unsound...
...Assembly, the Deputies trooped into the tea room where they found a monster "peace cake", dedicated to Minister of Justice Tilman Roos. On its sugar-coated top, in pink icing, were the names of all the Cabinet Ministers. Soon; laughing and munching, the Deputies sank their flag differences in chaff and good-humored badinage...