Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never been able to think that fate was guiding my destiny. I have rather felt that I was obliged to look after it myself. have found, however, that when I was doing the right thing a great many unforeseen elements would come in and turn to my advantage...
Strangely enough, this onetime Britisher with the flippant mustache and the magnate's look is such a good friend of labor that in 1922 when the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. tried to oust him from management, the employes bought sufficient stock with their savings to keep him in poWer. Said a motorman: "Mr. Mitten is just an ordinary man with extraordinary common sense...
...Well, Joe," he replied, "It's like this. Here I am, new at the job and everything. Of course I want to do well, and all that, but don't you think it would make it look a bit too easy, a bit too cut and dried, if you told them how much we were going to win by? And think of the effect on the other team. For the whole country knows about...
...said, "Perhaps you are right, Arnie. And I'll bear no hard feelings. I'll keep on telling you how to run the team just as though nothing had happened." And you should have seen the look of relief on his face. For he knew what a hole he would be in if Joe Forecast was missing from his council table...
...merely look upon the American democracy as something that rests upon inalienable rights and universal principles, a paragon of excellence which the rest of the world ought to copy but does not. Hence our laws insist that the Constitution be studied in our schools and colleges with due regard for the sanctity of the text and with no taint of higher criticism, but rather in all its textual literalness--that is to say, in the same uncritical spirit that characterizes the fundamentalist approach to the first chapter of Genesis...