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Lavish Display. With cheerful informality she recalled how her office was in the habit of calling Andy May's office as often as three times a day. Once she had heard him interrupt a conversation to ask: "What about the $3,000?" Another time a company officer took an envelope containing $1,000 to Congressman May's office...
Britons had fallen into the habit of gloom. They queued up in shops whether or not it was necessary. Recently, when an American reproved a British editor for not printing news about U.S. shortages, the Briton replied: "Why, if we told our readers that we aren't so much worse off than the Americans, we'd be depriving ourselves of our last comfort...
...cost of about $10 billion a year [TIME, Feb. 25]. And you raise the question: is it American? May I, one of the few German anti-militarists, give you an answer? Surely it's not American. It is pure Prussian militarism. . . . Generals and admirals are not in the habit of retiring willingly from their gilded honors into grey civilian life. The American people were able to create within two years the finest and most powerful army, navy and air force ever seen in history, besides stuffing their Allies with war materials. What then is the use of maintaining...
When a group of highbinding Chicago contractors tried to get the better of the sisters in remodeling a hotel into a hospital, the little Italian nun fired them out of hand, tucked up her habit, and stumped about the scaffoldings for weeks directing the laborers herself. She was an American after America's heart, and in 1909, in her 59th year, she became a U.S. citizen...
...pretend that we knew far more than we did; so with perfect courtesy and gravity, he would ask our opinion on some matter of which we knew next to nothing; and we knew it was only his exquisiteness of good manners that impelled the habit. . . . To fail him in some task [became] the one thing most abhorrent in dealing with such a man-a discourtesy...