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...place alongside those forgotten orators who reminded us that The future lies ahead,' and that The boys of today will be the men of tomorrow.' " ∙The Philadelphia Bulletin detected a new earnestness of rhetoric in the campaigns last week: "Until Election Day, Voltaire's famous remark is amended to read, T will defend to the death your right to say what you have just said, but if you say it again, I'll poke you one in the kisser...
...mild recession, and it looked like a big Democratic year. He entered the race a distinct underdog against Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan. He was helped by the usual factional row between New York's Democratic bosses and reformers, and he made devastating use of Jim Farley's scornful remark that Hogan's experience in national and international affairs "extends from the Battery to the Polo Grounds." In an upset victory, Keating squeaked in by 132,992 votes...
...please my father, tease the Pope, and spite the devil," Martin Luther, a former Augustinian monk, married Catherine von Bora, a 26-year-old former Cistercian nun. The event horrified Catholic Christendom, set the precedent for all future Protestant divines, and led the humanist Erasmus to remark that the Reformation "had started out like a tragedy, but ended as all comedies doin a wedding." Now from East Germany comes word that Luther's wedding ring, missing since World War I, has apparently been rediscovered in the keeping of a Schonberg family. Engraved on it are the names...
...know Bird until she was an upperclassman at the University of Texas. But she is one of the very, very few people I know who has never said an unkind, "catty" remark about anyone. She has no claws. She is a wonderful person, a constant friend, a most considerate and generous casual friend to many. Your article about her offended me deeply, as I am sure it will many of her friends when they read...
...Booth's case, reasons Psychiatrist Philip Weissman, his murderous rage was directed not only against his father but also against his older brother (and rival actor) Edwin, who had been publicly praised by Lincoln. Hence the significance of the remark in his diary after the assassination that he had "the curse of Cain" upon him. Still, Booth might not have acted out his "paranoid delusions" if his mother, who doted on him, had not repeatedly told him of a dream she had when he was an infant, visualizing him carrying out "an act of brave but bloody violence...