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...During the war some small brass in the Army even tried to get him out of stir (he was doing time for coercion) because his services as a transportation expert were much in demand. Furious Fiorello La Guardia put a stop to that. The only mote in Johnny Dunn's sighting eye was Anthony Hintz, the hiring boss on Pier 51 at the Hudson River foot of Manhattan's Jane Street. Andy Hintz wouldn't play ball with the hoods and their following of thieves and payroll paddies. He sent up word to Johnny that he could...
...chewing their nails wondering what will happen next, they are also wondering whether an essentially idealistic man can stay hopelessly pessimistic and inactive when he is brought face to face with the personification of evil. The peculiarity of it all is that Huston's moralizing does not impair a mote, mite, or job the entertainment value of Key Large...
...Methodist Council of Bishops, meeting 40-strong near Los Angeles last week, discovered a familiar mote in the eye of their Roman Catholic brethren. "The Roman Catholic Church," they declared in a committee report adopted by the council, "should cease to misinform the American people by affirmations of loyalty to democratic ideals when deliberately denying religious freedom wherever it has power...
Hats off to professional baseball's czar for removing Brooklyn's "Mote" from the Public...
Bertrand Russell is a rationalist, a materialist, a devotee of science (he is one of the greatest of living mathematicians). To him science is truth. Religion is a mote that does not trouble but tickles the mind's eye. Faith moves him to irony, not reverence. Some readers may feel that many of the philosophers whose systems he expounds disprove the connection between political and social conditions that he postulates. But few would deny that for laymen A History of Western Philosophy is a highly readable introduction to a difficult subject...