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Spokesman Hughes spoke in Buffalo and a subtler piece of political pleading has seldom been heard. The Hughes presence, dignity, prestige and good form are almost unique in U. S. public life. Few other fig- ures could have administered so impressively the prefatory rebukes to the Brown Derby which Spokesman Hughes uttered. He charged Nominee Smith with indulging in "cheap ridicule," "diatribe," "absurd tirades." "He [Nominee Smith] has stooped too low to conquer. . . . One's sense of fairness is affronted," said Mr. Hughes. "He misrepresents the position of Mr. Hoover and attempts to distort the meaning of Mr. Hoover...
When cotton grows on fig trees...
...were actually uttered by Guest-of-Honor Sir Nicholas Gratten-Doyle, M. P., and Director of Northern Newspapers Co., Ltd. But friends of Sir William doubted. They knew that he knows his Bible. Therefore it seemed impossible that he could have so thoroughly scrambled the Genesis story of the fig leaves and the suits of skins...
...clothe herself in "the only available fig leaf." There were plenty. For (Genesis III, 7) "they [Adam and Eve] sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons...
Pious Merchant Tailors should honor no more fig leaf or apron of fig leaves, but rather the Lord God, as the true originator of their ancient profession...