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...Illinois. "You're just salving your own consciences here this morning," roared he. "I thoroughly disagree with all the self-admiration that has been expressed here. . . . We haven't got even enough members of Congress to force a roll call. And still we listen to rhetorical pap . . . like 'the American way of life...
Head of Women Investors in America, Inc. is Cathrine Curtis, a tall, grey-haired onetime radio commentator. Wearing a tan costume and a roughrider hat, Director Curtis keynoted: "Have we been blinded by demagogs? Have we been lulled to a state of catalepsy by political pap, or have we been too lazy to assert and demand our sovereign rights? . . . Capitalism is not a devouring monster, and all the bitter denunciations emanating from ignorant and prejudiced sources cannot alter the fact that America owes her supremacy in world affairs to capitalism. . . . Woman, of course, through her great ownership of insurance, trust...
...further justification were still necessary. Government 1, Chemistry A, Philosophy A, and others, now made up in large part of bored students drudging away in hopeless apathy, will in the future be composed of men who, having only themselves to thank for their presence, need be fed no intellectual pap, spoonful by spoonful. No less profit from the new Decalogue will accrue to the University by casting out courses like Biology A, which offer little sound knowledge of the subject, and still less of the methods of biological work and thought. Freed from this dead weight, the departments will betray...
...ridden Brazilian lover, and (apparently) a shell-shocked and otherwise unstable British husband, whose demise provides Miss Rinehart with a court-room scene and a paralleled denouement. Of all the picture's conclusions, the plainest was that Miss Trevor is worthy of better things than the forcible feeding of pap to the public...
...Chief Abbott cried: "Lower away! For God's sake, lower away!" In that boat were 32 of the crew, two passengers. Chief Abbott said he did not see any other passengers around. In his haste to abandon ship he left behind his false teeth, has had to eat pap ever since...