Word: said
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Britain's lion-maned, pernickety old David Lloyd George: "Perhaps after all Chamberlain was responsible for the Munich bomb outrage; the explosion was 15 minutes late...
After the lunch hour, having swept her schoolroom, and put Mercurochrome on Gaylyn's cut finger, Miss Campbell found the going harder than in the morning. When Johnny, during a history lesson, remarked: "It sounds kind of goofy," Miss Campbell was shocked, said severely: "I don't think that's very good English." During a sluggish geography lesson that followed, Miss Campbell lost her temper, pointed her pencil, said grimly: "Listen, Doris, you go back and read slower and don't make any mistakes. You're getting to be a terrible thinker...
That was in 1916 and 1917, before the U. S. entered World War I. Since then, some of the warlike preachers have died; some-notably Dr. Fosdick-have sworn off for life. Dr. Manning, now Bishop of New York, has kept his guns oiled, said recently: "A Christian cannot be neutral between right and wrong. . . . Right is more important than peace. . . . What our ultimate duty as a nation may be if the conflict is prolonged...
...Eskimo companions, the Bishop learned to keep his socks dry at 78 below zero. He learned the knack of building a fire in a howling gale, learned to pick off wolves outside the camp circle with a rifle. Bishop Rowe mushed 2,000 miles each winter-in sum, he said, more than any other man in Alaska...
Invitations to Earl Browder, U. S. Communist No. 1, to make a speech before Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth undergraduate societies were rescinded by university authorities because he was under U. S. indictment for passport fraud. When Yale undergraduates also invited him, urbane President Charles Seymour said he would not interfere. His reason (laid down two years ago in his inaugural address): "The London policemen in Hyde Park have learned that the surest method of exposing incompetent charlatanism is to give the charlatan a protected forum...