Word: prating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park, a breakfast chat with his wife, and the thought of some 500 members of Congress getting back to their homes to prate about or deplore what the 76th had done in Washington, presently combined to inspire more fighting words from Franklin Roosevelt...
...hear our American Legion friends prate of ''100% Americanism." and we wonder if this annual demonstration is their idea of that elusive condition, which most of them would have some trouble in denning. I think nobody would deny that if I or you got out in Times Square and held up traffic . . . the sturdy minions of the law would quite promptly and forcibly throw us in the Bastille to think about the error of our ways. Every time I hear one of our self-appointed American Legion guardians of Americanism bragging about the organization's efforts...
...draw. Professor Emeritus Frederick Lincoln Anderson of Andover-Newton Theological Seminary led off: "The tyrants who sit in Rome, Moscow and Berlin. . . ." Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas, president of the World Baptist Alliance, countered with a thundering speech on missions : "If we Baptists sit smugly aside and prate about our orthodoxy while this mission work goes unheeded, then I say orthodoxy is a grinning, chattering skeleton!" Of Dr. Kagawa, after that mild little man had shouted one of his high-pitched, unintelligible addresses into a microphone, onetime President Monroe Elmon Dodd of the Southern Baptist Convention exclaimed...
...wish to keep it sweet . . . and all I wish for others . . . is that they should keep their lives sweet also, not after my fashion, but each man in his own way. . . . Now I am sometimes blamed for not laboring more earnestly to bring down the good of which I prate into the lives of other men. . . . Alas, their propagandas! How they have filled this world with hatred, darkness and blood! . . . I wish individuals, and races, and nations to be themselves, and to multiply the forms of perfection and happiness, as nature prompts them. . . . The good, as I conceive...
...hide their dissent in a cowardly cloak of generality! Yes, let them define the issues! We have been specific in our affirmative action. Let them be specific in their negative attack!" Shackles for Liberty. "Our resplendent economic autocracy does not want to return to that individualism of which they prate, even though the advantages under that system went to the ruthless and the strong. They realize that in 34 months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a people's government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political...