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...Secretary of State who will sponsor such balderdash as this memorandum? Here we are in the midst of the most delicate international crisis that has arisen since the War, and we find the Secretary of State engaged in slanderous insinuation against a friendly government. Could anything be meaner? . . . This is a crime against the peace of the world. This is a crime against the honor of the United States...
...hears the knock of opportunity on the door that leads to Broadway success. Failing miserably in his tryout, he enters business to pay a debt. Three years later, a completely successful man of affairs, he climbs down from his office stool and returns to the vagabond life of the meaner music halls...
...best of the reviews undoubtedly give the essential facts, and present them more concisely than either reference book or lecture. Some books, said Bacon, "may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books." Most college assignments are of the sort worth reading; many of them are intended to be "chewed and digested...
...works of art; but we persistently throw away much of what they offer by pursuing them in the wrong spirit. To my thinking, the sport most in need of reform now is not football (though that is far from perfect), but baseball. It is hard to conceive of anything meaner than tripping an adversary as he runs past a base, or "rattling" a batsman with derisive language poured into his ear by the catcher, or "breaking up" a pitcher and a visiting team by that organized cheering which is designed to make up for the home team's misplays...
...better, more useful, more satisfying way of life, there is no greater joy, than to be at one in spirit and purpose with him and with the great company of loyal and loving souls who gratefully acknowledge his inspiration and guidance and to set before ourselves any meaner ideal is to be faithless to our grandest possibilities