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Left. By Nathan Straus, Jewish philanthropist and merchant of Manhattan; an estate appraised at $1,302,658, the bulk of it in securities. He had explained in his will: "I have always been deeply impressed by an old Jewish proverb which says: 'What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold, what you give in sickness is silver, and what you give after death is lead.' (Many of the rich do not even give lead...
...Einstein: There is a German proverb which says that any one can get used to being hanged...
...whose bidding we generally pay more heed than to that of our recognized will." Freud got his first real start in Paris under the famed Charcot who cured hysterical paralysis by hypnotic suggestion. Thereafter Freud made a systematic study of the subconscious, discovered the truth of the Chinese proverb: "What is pent up in the deepest recesses of the heart, sneezes itself...
There is a medieval Roman proverb in connection with the election of Popes, to the effect that "he who goes into the conclave a pope, comes out a cardinal." This phrase has a parallel application in American politics. It is well-known that the candidate for the presidential nomination who receives too large a lead is likely to excite jealousy. The result frequently is a coalition to stop him even at the cost of nominating a weaker candidate, true particularly in the Democratic party. And in the past it has often kept it from victory. The deadlock caused...
...University Press has announced two new publications, "John Jacob Astor", by Kenneth Wiggins Porter, research assistant in Business History at the Business School, and "The Proverb", by Professor Archer Taylor of the University of Chicago...