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...wife, and the gambler, plus considerable window dressing provided by other blizzard-bound characters. It also makes a remarkable value judgment to the effect that bank robbers are a scurvy lot, while full time gamblers are engaged in an honorable if unusual profession. This distinction no doubt will distress Senator Kefauver, but it was calmly accepted by the clientele of the Metropolitan Theatre...
...never, never throw away a winning program. This is so elementary that I suspect the people handing out this advice are not really well-wishers of the Democratic Party." The winning program is still "the New Deal and the Fair Deal," and it includes, he said (to the distress of Democratic National Chairman Frank McKinney, who was trying in Chicago to patch up a compromise with the Southerners), a firm stand on civil rights. "I am sure that the liberal faith is the political faith of the great majority of Americans . . . and that is why, this time...
...some point, I sought relief from my distress by trying to pray . . . As I continued to pray raggedly, prayer ceased to be an awkward and self-conscious act. It became a daily need to which I looked forward . . . The torrent that swept through me in 1937 and the first months of 1938 swept my spirit clear to discern one truth: 'Man without mysticism is a monster.' I do not mean, of course, that I denied the usefulness of reason and knowledge. What I grasped was that religion begins at the point where reason and knowledge are powerless...
...When our peninsula was in distress, the general came 10,000 miles to help us . . . One person is riding above the white clouds, while 10.000 nations are in flames. His battlegrounds, where hundreds of battles have been fought and won, are Europe in the West and Asia in the East...
...Manhattan doctor), Sheen went to Europe to study at the University of Louvain, Belgium. To learn French, they first went to a small resort town where no one spoke any English. Soon afterwards, in a Paris boardinghouse, Sheen met a Frenchwoman who lived on the floor above. In deep distress over the breakup of her home, she told Sheen she was about to commit suicide. Sheen begged her to wait just nine days. She agreed, and for eight evenings Sheen sat with her, talking religion. His French was still so halting that he kept a dictionary open before...