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...democracies were less maudlinly ready to condone, their elective servants might not be so prone to err...
...Tactlessness always has been one of the outstanding defects of the children of Israel. British Jews do not err in this respect nearly as much as their kinsmen of the Continent. Nevertheless they would do well to remember that the fact of leadership of the Bolshevist campaign against civilization and religion being almost entirely in the hands of men of their blood has done inevitable and incalculable harm to the reputation of the Hebrew race in every country of its adoption...
...extraction. Let your representative learn the same lessons I did, then you change your comment of this industrious people, and refer to none of them, not even a house servant, as being stupid! Finns resent such comment. You erred and used poor judgment when you published it. Lest you err again, permit me to advise that you use care never to call them Finlanders. Their trusty weapons of former days-the keen-edged Puukko knife-often slashed the person guilty of far less than what you "pulled" last week. WILLIAM...
...citizens would be aghast if President Hoover, good Quaker, worker for world peace, should suddenly declare: "The human race develops by war and succeeds in war in proportion to its use of metal. . . . Races perish in peace. . . . Culture is increased by invention of new weapons . . . pacifists err in assuming that peace is desirable. . . . We Americans are living in unpaid luxury and must pay in full in blood...
...Ernest Horn became wrought up over the inadequacy of the English alphabet to represent sounds accurately, he started calculating-14 sounds for "s," 22 for "long e," 21 for "ir," etc. Variant spellings for "ir" intrigued him: (h) er, (s) ir, (ch) or (ade), (c) er (tain), err, (theat)re (m)yrrh. For lowan reasons were included (n)ear, (hon)or. When he finished with "circumference," he figured 396,000,000 phonetic spellings...