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...China sailed last week from San Diego, Calif., a Quaker who has helped to put down 22 revolutions in his day, and later fought to make of Philadelphia a "dry" metropolis. This respected paladin from Pennsylvania is of course Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. Last week the War Department ordered General Butler to hasten to Shanghai and there take command of the 3,000 U. S. marines who may soon be fighting a modern Boxer Campaign...
Smedley D. Butler, sturdy Quaker, partook of this courageous, fighting chivalry. He was seen by a British officer to rush out under fire and drag a private to safety. For this the British recommended that he receive the Victoria Cross; but at London, experts pointed out that he was not eligible on technical grounds...
...well-spoken speech may net only ten, where a word in the right ear will net a hundred thousand dollars or a new gymnasium." Intellectual "safety" was defined: "He must be devoid of all purely rational principles and ideas of any sort . . . cannot be a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller. . . . Above all, he should understand how to befog issues wherein ideas perhaps lurk dangerously by raising and keeping raised a perfect dust storm of issues that really do not matter...
...defined by him in his article. He will be "a Harvard graduate", "socially presentable", anyone who has an article in the Transcript is that, and he will be "between thirty and forty years old", since he was born in 1896. Nor will he be "a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller". Mr. Baldwin is evidently an egoist...
Marcus Antoninus "as good or better than Jesus." She corresponded with Rousseau, whom she deemed to have known few fine women. She read Toland, Tindal, Hume, Locke, Grey, Campion, Herrick, Pope and Shakespeare, among others, never without intelligent commentary. On a pamphlet by John Woolman, the Quaker, noted that he had "used B. Franklin and D. Hall of Philadelphia" as his printers. "A new book," she said, "is always the event of the week...