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...whispering campaign which had its origin among a group of Democratic businessmen in the South was set loose to crawl across the country. Some of the whispers: Willkie spends an hour every week having his hair marcelled. Willkie privately damns Labor...
...battlefield impetuosity. In 1930 he was almost court-martialed for calling Premier Mussolini a "hit-and-run driver." Retired, General Butler lectured for peace, published a book entitled War Is a Racket, advocated complete U. S. isolation coupled with an ironclad defense a rat couldn't crawl through." He was a Quaker...
...This is not merely another European war. This is a struggle between two wholly contradictory, two clashing ways of life. We cannot escape the consequences of its outcome. There are some who may hold the opinion that we can isolate ourselves from world events, crawl into our economic and political cyclone cellar, draw in the trap door after us, and thus preserve the essential elements of the American experiment. ... To retreat to the cyclone cellar here means, ultimately, to establish a totalitarian state at home...
...done a lot of unorthodox thinking about the human mind, the human soul, the World Soul, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmos, God. Now he has published the result of his pondering in a book, The Soul of the Universe* a calm treatise calculated to make the flesh of hardheaded materialists crawl. He starts with straightforward scientific exposition, but soon plunges into intuitive extensions; then into metaphysics, mysticism, finally into unabashed theism...
...disgust that it produces, by the sleeplessness that results from it, by the ubiquity of the skin lesions, and by the mortal disease [typhus fever] that it carries in its bite, it surpasses any. Because it is unremitting, the soldier dreads it more than artillery fire. . . . From the slow crawl of the louse over his body there is no respite. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow it will...