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...enthusiastic acceptance just because somebody has had a big thrill thinking them out. It must appear on reflection, however, that some people possess powers of thought denied to others, that some minds are incapable of formulating rational ideas as distinguished from mere "emoting," and that often those who shout loudest about how Harvard fails to pay them any attention, are not, on the basis of what they have to say, worthy of being heard. For there is a distinction between sound intellectual operation, which takes discipline, and words full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. For the latter...
...grand evening!" commented King George after the last turn, a Scottish shepherd who sang A Hundred Pipers an' A', after which 100 pipers from Scottish regiments marched in piping their loudest, burst into God Save the King before a backdrop of Edinburgh Castle. Cried Scottish Queen Elizabeth "Thank you for a wonderful surprise...
Tough urchins with names like Angel, T.B., Dippy, Spit, peopled the play and brought it to fame. Toughest and meanest of these was Spit, biggest bully, loudest curser, and a squealer...
...order to get the full cooperation, on an equal basis, of the United States Government in an international conflict," added Mr. Eden, "I would travel not only from Geneva to Brussels but from Melbourne to Alaska!" To this speech the House responded with the loudest cheers it has ever given Secretary Eden...
Ever since the War, Germans have had drilled into them that Britain and France have meted out "unequal treatment" to the Reich and that this is the Crime of the Century. It was in defiant efforts to force "equal treatment" from Democratic powers that the Nazis clamored loudest and ultimately tore up the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, Feb. 8). Last week Il Duce set the Italian press to clamoring that Britain and France have now denied "equality" to Italy, demanding that the Italian navy be given an equal share in any patrol of the Mediterranean. As these editorials were read...