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Washington observers thought the veteran campaigner Franklin Roosevelt was showing signs of getting restless, would relish a chance to wade into an old-fashioned political slugging match. White House visitors who have urged the President to take trips to Chicago, to the West Coast, report that he reflects a long time, then shakes his head with the resigned sadness of a man pondering on the good speeches he has no chance to deliver, the good answers he has no opportunity to make...
...scalpel that Winchell, who had expected a pat on the head, did not realize until the operation was well begun that his throat was being slit. This week the operation appeared in book form for as many of Winchell's some 10,000,000 column readers as might relish dignified, cruel irony of the best New Yorker grade. A few of McKelway's incisions...
Every tongue in Japan rolled this Konoyism with great relish, though no one knew precisely what it meant. It was variously used as a sales slogan, an expletive, a philosophic concept, even as an excuse for nonpayment of debts. But the most common interpretation - the one on which Prince Konoye rode to the Premiership in July - was as a promise of a one-party political system, vaguely like that of Germany or Italy. Last week, speaking before the Preparatory Com mittee for the New National Structure, Prince Konoye dispelled that illusion and made one thing very clear: he intends...
Trotsky savored these things with special relish. All his life he had lived in a shadowy world of conspiracy and revolution. But now the great revolutionary's life had become singularly peaceful. His following had dwindled to a handful of devoted, inconsequential disciples. His written work was esteemed less for its revolutionary content than for its masterly prose...
...considered for the highest office in the land, before his nomination, speaks of himself as one who will be nominated "damn quick." Now, won't Christians all over the country relish him ? Pity it is that people who sincerely desire clean government cannot have someone to vote for who can use clean words in expressing himself. And this is Willkie...