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...punned: "Free soil, free speech, free men and Fremont." A resounding, if somewhat vague, slogan was Theodore Roosevelt's cry in 1912: "We stand at Armageddon and fight for the Lord." This was far less successful than the gluttonous Republican shout of 1896: "McKinley and the full dinner pail!" And the 1916 Wilson motto: "He kept us out of war!" One of the most successful slogans of all time was Warren G. Harding's "Back to normalcy," embarrassingly illiterate but far more euphonious than "Back to normality" would have been...
...building of skyscrapers there are a few details in which science has not supplanted skill. Workmen still play catch with incandescent rivets, which, when heated, are tossed through the air 30, 40, 50 feet to where a nonchalant figure, swaying on a matchstick girder, swings a pail to catch them. Loiterers many floors below stand enchanted, watching the bits of glowing metal leap obligingly like miraculously agile trout into a waiting pan. Loiterers reflect that while science sometimes fails when heavy steel bars drop down, skill is infallible, for no rivet ever falls...
Last week, on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, skill failed. A rivet leaped through the air, gave a convulsive trout-like twist, dodged the waiting pail, slipped down through the air, gleaming, white hot, toward a Fifth Avenue bus-top. It struck with a hiss upon the back of a silk dress being worn by Helen Frawley, 17. Loiterers watched her being put into a taxicab, rubbed their eyes, gasped, moved away...
...lank, sunburned individual walked down the street. He stooped and had a two-days' growth of beard. He was encased in blue overalls, stitched with white. In one hand he carried a pail half filled with a dark brown paint; in the other a heavy brush. It was Bill Jones going to paint his barn...
...They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill of self-support to fetch a pail of the water of self-respect. ... Author Delafield writes well up to her pretensions, which are neither large nor small...