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...sarcasm of the day before, Mr. Chesterton elected to assail Mr. Wells, evolutionist. He began by talking about atheists, of whom, he said, the world has very few. "An atheist," he boomed, "is much more difficult to emancipate than any one else because he is, above all people, the narrowest and most completely captive." But Mr. Wells is not even an atheist, explained Mr. Chesterton. He is merely antiChristian, which requires less logic, courage or consistency than being an atheist. "They [the Wells type of thinkers] talk about believing in a purpose in things and then tell you they...
Last October-just before the election-President Coolidge announced that he was troubled by the prospect of a deficit next June 30. He could see only the "narrowest margin between revenue and expenditures." An air of anxiety, if not gloom, was thus cast over the Treasury-in voters' minds. The conservative conclusion could only be: If a deficit threatens, let us not change horses, i.e., political party control, in midstream. The President's announcement was also used as a fiscal hackamore to make Congress stand hitched...
Probably the most significant result of the whole study is the fact that there is after all not a great deal of difference between the two sets of students. All the contrasts must be made by the narrowest of margins. The outstanding fact that out of this class of eight hundred three hundred were engaged in sports at one time or another is an indication of the success of Harvard's policy of "athletics...
Said the arch-Democratic New York World, naming Mayor Walker by name: "This appeal to the narrowest and most ignorant and debased type of patriotic prejudice is as contemptible, and might under certain circumstances become just as sinister, as the appeal to religious prejudice...
...focus of his attention. He produced a dignified operetta called The Red Feather and another more sprightly beauty show called Mile, Fifi. His first wife was Anna Held, who starred in this show, became famous for singing "I Can't Make My Eyes Behave," and who had the narrowest waistline in the U. S. at a time when such details commanded favorable notice...