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...brick on him and killed him." Then he solemnly reminded his boys that they and he must be careful not to get the big head: "Due to the fact that through luck and the good Lord you happen to have a Chief Executive of the United States, you mustn't . . . feel that you are better than the other people who served and fought for the country...
...after that he did everything but shoot off firecrackers under the judge's nose. He objected incessantly. He told bad jokes. He brayed, waved his arms, and quoted the Bible with enthusiastic piety. On one of those rare occasions when the judge reproved him, he replied obsequiously, "Beggars mustn't be choosers and I'm happy to get what you're gonna give me ... I subside." Then he would continue as before. As he ranted, he stood close behind U.S. Attorney John M. Kelley Jr.; from time to time Kelley brushed chewed fragments of Palmer...
Life on a fashionable Middletown street was happy and uncomplicated. About the only rule was that a boy mustn't hang on to the back of ice wagons. "So we hung on to the back of ice wagons," says the Secretary of State, who enjoys recalling the "golden age of childhood." But Acheson could not help but bear some of the stamp of Father. No one who ever came in contact with the Rev. Edward Campion Acheson, later Bishop of Connecticut, came away without his imprint...
...implications were lost on him. "My first sensation," he said, "was just the joy of having made the shmoo. Then came a feeling of annoyance. I've been subjected to all the shmoo jokes in the world, like 'there's good shmoos tonight,' and I mustn't say go-to-hell to anybody. Now I'm delighted again, having read that the shmoo has all sorts of economic meanings...