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...Constitution Day???"Bulwark of Democracy and Happiness." On this day it was recommended that the fol- lowing points be made by speechmakers: "Life, liberty, justice, security and opportunity," "One Constitution, one Union, one Flag, one History." Slogans suggested: "Ballots, not bullets," "Master the English language," "Visit the schools today...
...house on her land and was going to make her tear down her cabin?who got a sign from the Lord, and burnt that house to white fine ashes, such as fell out of her corncob pipe when she prayed. There is Killdee who ploughed on Green Thursday?Ascension Day???the day Jesus went back to God, wherefore he expected to be scourged, and was, for that night his little girl, Baby Rose, was burnt to death in the cookfire. After that Killdee hated God. Vengeance was all right, but it didn't seem square to burn a baby...
...Florian won his desire and brought Melior home as his duchess. Then his disenchantment began. Melior was as beautiful as day???a beautiful, chattering fool. And as for Holy St. Hoprig, whom Florian discovered alive in the flesh?the saint's conversation alone destroyed Florian's belief in holiness completely. The child of .sacrifice was born, and then the end came an end too odd and unexpected for us to reveal here. Suffice it to say that it taught Florian that the great law of living is "thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor" and that wisdom...
...riveter, a sandhog, a bush league pitcher, Regular Army Sergeant, a worker in the steel mills, a miner, a railroad engineer, a hoofer in the three-a-day???where are their stories? Where are the stories of the people without inherited incomes who have neither time, money nor opportunity for the elegant complications of country club life? They themselves are inarticulate? But is anyone more inarticulate artistically than the average bond salesman...
During four days of the Shriners' Convention in Washington: 50,000 visitors called at the White House. 20,000 of them called on one day??? the largest number of guests at the White House in any day of its history. 10,000 visitors shook the President's hand. At nearly all hours the lines of waiting visitors extended several blocks from the White House in the broiling sun. 1,000 persons were admitted at a time by the White House police, the usual formality of admission by card being disregarded...