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From this you will see that the vision of me hanging around a barnyard with a bucket in my hand waiting for some old dairy cow to drop a calf is rather ridiculous. Certainly there is nothing in such a picture to impress one with the purity of our product or the desirability of taking such a mess into one's peritoneal cavity...
Grew prestige was not exactly of the kind to impress two-fisted President T. R. Roosevelt. Wires from Boston were pulled in vain. Joseph's efforts to be sent with Minister Edwin Morgan to Korea, then the hot spot Japan is today, landed him as a consular clerk in Cairo...
...Eastern Locarno. This scheme in embryonic verbal form was outlined to the Hitler Government by Comrade Litvinoff the last time he passed through Berlin. Hotly German Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath cried "Nein!" That rebuff made it necessary to drag in Great Britain as a stern godfather able to impress Adolf Hitler...
Nonetheless, convening educators last week resolved on mass demonstrations throughout the land next autumn "to impress the entrenched interests now attacking the schools." Hopefully they decided to ask the next Congress for half a billion dollars, with no strings of Federal control attached. In this resolution they were going to call attention to $2,000,000,000 Federal appropriations for Army & Navy, but War Veteran Virgil Sturgill of Ashland, Ky. objected and the comparison was struck...
...does nothing else, such a book as Property or Peace should impress its readers with the fact that in a world of tear-gas bombs, castor oil. strikes and politico-religious excommunications there is still such a thing as tart reasonableness...