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...March 4, 1921, when Dr. Harding of Marion, Ohio, saw his son Warren become President." Now, General Grant's father saw his son twice elected and inaugurated as President of the U. S., and is the only man of whom that can be said. Although he had earlier experienced disgust over the flat failure that Ulysses had made of his career, there is no reason to suppose that his paternal heart did not feel joy at such a turn of fortune. I would not be sure that there were not other fathers who have seen their sons reach Presidential honors...
...impostors, the benefactor tears out tickets, directs the mendicant to a relief bureau, with assurance that his case will be looked up and aided by food, clothing and even employment within 24 hours of his applying. The genuinely destitute are thus succored. Charlatans tear up the tickets in disgust, soon quit their game...
...Government, with its own bill up its sleeve, stood grimly by and watched the Cartelist Deputies struggle to such negligible effect that M. Lamoureux, reporter of the Cartel measure, repeatedly threatened to resign in utter disgust...
...notice with considerable disgust that in your football discussions in TIME for Nov. 16 you state that "a blocked kick in the last quarter gave Pittsburgh's sloppy team a victory after it had been badly outplayed all afternoon by Washington and Jefferson." Such a view scarcely coincides with my view of the affair...
...Philippe Barrès, son of Maurice Barrès (late author-orator) then defined the spirit of the new Fascism as "Faith in France . . . and a deep disgust with parliamentarianism." Declared M. Georges Valois, Nationalist economist: "Our work will be . . . to suppress parliament and give a leader to the national state. . . . In replacing the parliamentary form of government, only one of two new forms is possible-Communism or Fascism. Can there be any choice? . . . The financial recovery of France can be accomplished only by a dictator of finances, who, it is easy to perceive, must be necessarily a political...