Word: excalibur
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What does the common warning against "throwing one's vote away" come down to? That no individual has any influence in determining the election if he votes a minority ticket. Excalibur in two-edged here, and cuts both him who uses it and him whom it is used against; no single vote, Republican, Democratic, or Socialist, ever counts. On close examination this shibboleth against the Ephraimites of socialism is irrelevant, except as it gainsays any action at all, on any side. Innovation must always come about by infinitesimal stages, and in history, changes start in the footnotes and work...
...Steamship Corp. launch its first of four 8,700-ton vessels built with U. S. loans under the new Merchant Marine Act. A whistle tooted; Mrs. Hoover put down her roses, took a basketed bottle of spring water, cracked it smartly over the moving prow, exclaimed: "I christen thee Excalibur." Declared the first lady: "I got a real thrill when my hand touched the bow of that powerful vessel." Later in the week at Camp May Flather near Harrisonburg, Va. Mrs. Hoover broke an ivy rope, presented a 100-ft. rustic bridge across North river to the girl scouts...
...only symbolical of the idea of Mr. Anderson's novel but of the strange and exaggerated narcissism of the younger realists. In the face of such aberrations, a pen such as Julian Street's or Booth Tarkington's takes on the aspect of an Excalibur...