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...Walt Whitmans, rejected by the people whom they would serve. For one suspects that they have forgotten (or perhaps they have never known) the hard truth, "Nothing is further from the common people than the corrupt desire--to be common people," if one may amend Mr. Santayana's dictum...
Thus spake Roosevelt's right-hand man, Donald Richberg, a few days ago. Yet neither doubting Thomases, Tories, old guardists, nor even the few quite respectable anti-now dealers have drawn sufficient nectar from this dictum to plunge into the requested attitude of confidence...
...Boston," wrote Lincoln Steffens, "has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure." In the light of Mayor Mansfield's dictum regarding Sean O'Casey's widely acclaimed drama, "Within the Gates," the judgment of the former muckraker is amply justified. His Honor the Mayor has taken it upon himself, at the urging of the Catholic Church, to brand a play termed "great" by the most experienced dramatic critics in the United States as "nothing but a dirty book full of commonplace smut...
...declared Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles, "as a little bit theatrical to stage a strong-arm act every time you make an arrest." Only Denver's Police Chief George Marland would go part way with Commissioner Valentine. "Dead right," said he of the New Yorker's dictum that police should shoot first...
...constitution of our universe, but the history of astronomical though from the earliest times. The reader with but a mild interest in the subject matter will find in it a fascinating tale, easy to pick up, next to impossible to lay down. It is another proof of the ancient dictum that the truly great man is he who can express the most complicated of thoughts without resorting to involved phraseology as a sort of camouflage...