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...implying conversation, compromise, good cheer. Tongs were originally started as protective trade organizations. They became, by degrees, political bodies?compact, powerful, antagonistic. Thus was the word perverted. Now, when that word appears in print, it clangs like a terrible bronze bell summoning unseen hordes to war, sounding the knell of many pathetic, dingy little men who will die by violence, in secret places...
...American preparatory schools measured up to the high standards of Eton and Rugby, then Mr. Darrow would be completely justified in his desire to see the practices of the great English universities speedily imported. But such an event would benefit only a small minority and would sound the death-knell of any hope of cultivating the remainder...
After a speech of welcome by M. Painlevé, M. Caillaux stood up to orate. What was he to say? He was expected by some to sound the death-knell of Premier Herriot's Ministry. He was expected by others to formulate a new national policy. At least he would make a bid for power. But it would be a difficult business. M. Caillaux's party is in power and he could hardly attack his own party. What was he to do? What could...
...decisive defeat of Senator La Folette does not sound the death knell of progressivism in America, in the opinion of Professor Munro. He did not consider that the Progressives could continue in existence as a separate party with much success. "But the probability is that one or the other of the old parties, or possibly both will gradually become more progressive in their principles, he went on to state. "A formal coalition of the La Folette-Wheeler supporters with the Democrats is about as possible as for the 'solid South' to go Republican...
When his opinion was asked concerning the statements of some newspapers in this country that the defeat of the Labor party in England is the death knell of all political parties based on class distinctions, Mr. Williams declared that any such contention is wrong. "The Labor party in England is too strongly entrenched to suffer permanently from this defeat," he said. "I do think, however, that the La Follette Progressive Party in this country will die because it is opposed by the American Federation of Labor...