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...come through the censorship but whose text was printed and reprinted in Soviet papers, the Dictator said of the men and women up for election to Russia's new Parliament: "I cannot say with assurance that their ranks are free ... of such men whom the Russian proverb describes as 'neither God's candle, nor Devil's broom.'. . . Our Constitution foresees the possibility of that situation-a deputy who has begun to kick. . . . The Government must organize new elections in a case like that. . . . If they have gone astray, get rid of them!" Russian wise-acres...
...high command in the Chinese Army. The Generalissimo was further harassed by news from Hankow that leading Kuomintang Politician Wang Ching-wei had manifestoed to the Chinese Government: "If you want peace, you had better make peace before the fall of Nanking. What says our ancient proverb: 'It is a humiliation to make peace with the enemy under the city walls...
...human infallibility. Brandeis objected to financial pyramids, huge monopolies and interminable leases not so much because of size as because he felt and feels that human administrative capacity has grave limits. In 1915, appearing before a Congressional committee with a new bill aimed at monopoly, he quoted a German proverb: "Care is taken that the trees do not scrape the skies." Hundreds of times and in hundreds of ways he has expressed the same theme- a theme which marks the enormous difference between his liberal thinking and that, for instance, which is exemplified by the New Deal...
...little English expatriate with a faint air of skulldruggery about him," has acquired an impressive reputation not only as No. 1 U. S. foreign correspondent but also as the most official of unofficial U. S. ambassadors. Readers of his first novel, One Life, One Kopeck (titled after a Russian proverb meaning "Life is not worth a damn") may feel that Correspondent Duranty has now added to that reputation the right to be called the most official of unofficial Russian novelists. The tale of a peasant boy who rises to the rank of a Red Army commander, One Life, One Kopeck...
Give a dog an ill name, says the proverb, and he'll soon be hanged. Hang a man for piracy and he'll be known as a bloody pirate to all posterity. Captain Kidd, who ended his career in a gibbet on Execution Dock, has become the legendary archetype of brutal buccaneer. Says Biographer Wilkins: poor Captain Kidd was a much-maligned man. In a 411-page examination of the contemporary documents in Kidd's case, Sleuth Wilkins sniffs the cold, obscured trail like an eager beagle. His beaglish enthusiasm, indeed, takes Author Wilkins in a wide...