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finesse ? 2nd T.R.: Forsooth and I shall send this...
Zounds! As even the most erudite of Harvard professors forsooth must discover betimes, this fair young university finally shows signs which portend of pigskin prowess...
...radio address on "Papal Pronouncements and American Foreign Policy," Bishop Hurley cried: "Crusade forsooth! Not God, but the enemy of God, wills it; its standard is not the Cross, but the swastika which a great Pontiff called 'this foe of the Cross of Christ'; the rape of Poland is scarcely a recommendation for Christian knights; and the recluse of Berchtesgaden is badly cast for the role of Peter the Hermit. . . . America's attitude toward this new war should not be swayed by Nazi propaganda; it must be based on purely strategic considerations. The Nazi remains Enemy...
...Science can be no cloistered or fugitive thing. It cannot sit cowering in its laboratory while freedom dies. ... It must have highhearted ways and be ashamed of priggish petitions from its children to the President of this country saying that because, forsooth, they are scientists they are above the battle and addicted to the higher life. These men showed themselves in that action the gadgeteers of science."-Hot on Dr. Kennedy's smoking heels, the convention unanimously passed a resolution asking the U. S. to give "credit, supplies and armaments" to the Allies...
...cycle of fashion in thought revolved. First, of course they were Heroes. Then the debunking-novel period arrived and they were alleged to have been ruffians, bullies, and blackguards. Then for a while everybody was so busy that gold stars grew tarnished and were forgotten. And now, forsooth, the boys in the oak picture-frames are suckers...