Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Politics is a concrete profession, practiced for livelihood by men who, for the most part, train themselves as consciously as do lawyers, doctors, dentists.
"I have also given deep consideration to the other items mentioned: (a) Am I a British subject? Did I ever apply for such citizenship? No. Many generations of persecuted Quaker ancestors would rise in their graves at such a discovery. ... (b) Did I ever rent a "residence" abroad? I plead...
Siamese Twins. No one would suppose Terry Turner, a fat and smirking Broadwayfarer, to be an exploiter of monstrosity. Yet such is part of his profession. The Hilton twins, Siamese ones, who live in Texas, owe their fame and vaudeville contracts especially to him. Last fortnight this press-agent for...
The Translator. The translator who can be accurate and yet idiomatic is both craftsman and artist. Such a one is Scott Moncrieff, translator of difficult Marcel Proust. And such a one is Arthur Waley, translator of exquisite Chinese poetry and of the monumental Japanese novel by Lady Murasaki. Translator Waley...
But, when a U. S. preacher says "vice," all of his listeners take him to mean sexual vice, or even more specifically fornication. There is little that a U. S. President or a State Governor or legislator can do about fornication except to avoid this sin himself. Indeed the only...