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...primary campaign, Mr. Morrow had no public record on Prohibition. In his first address he declared for repeal of the 18th Amendment and return of the question to the States. Unlike numerous Wet demagogs in both parties who feast publicly on the bones of Dry mistakes, he did not rant and roar against Prohibition. He discussed it with cool-headed dispassion and dignity. He tried to un- scramble morals from government, warned of the Federal Government as "an alien and even hostile power," counseled a new "reasonableness" between Wets and Drys...
...from the rage of Mrs. Chen, who called on Editor Chan to be rate him; and from the actions, a day or so later, of eight stalwart Chinamen who visited Editor Chan's office and overturned typewriters, upset tables, smashed chairs, moved Editor Chan to swear out a war rant for Mrs. Chen's arrest...
Macbeth is a play, not so much of men and women, as of the wind and the darkness, witches and their gloomy cries. It has been played a thousand ways, by actors, steeped in the colors of their trade, unmannerly breached with gore, who bellow and rant, who incarnadine its multitudinous sea of words with bloody sound and fury...
Third: He is conducting his campaign on a high plane of constructive argument. He does not stoop to raucous denunciation, he does not rant. He speaks as a serious student of national problems, recognizing their difficulties, and dealing with them as an engineer and economist. He does not make promises which he knows that he can not fulfill leaving himself loopholes of escape from their literal fulfillment. He has not tried to carry water on both shoulders by appealing both to the wets and the drys, both to the free traders and the protectionists, both to big business...
...rave and to rant...