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...club's 4,850 members range from labor leaders to corporation executives. For a generation they have been soapboxed by speakers of every political shade, from Communist Earl Browder to Britain's conservative Lord Halifax. The club has heard every U.S. president since William McKinley, missing only Warren G. Harding (he died the day before he was to address it). Before it in 1932, Presidential Nominee Franklin Roosevelt made the famed speech which first blueprinted the New Deal...
...caustic father-in-law (finely played by Dudley Digges) tells him, lay in his subscribing to the notion "that bad men are stupid and good men are smart." But the scornful old liberal, who knew better, himself behaved worse. He cynically abandoned his fighting newspaper, sat snorting in the shade...
...More than half say that neighbors can see into their bedrooms, and most of them mind it. But 8% do not pull the shade down when dressing with the lights on. Only 15% close the bedroom door at night...
...January midday sun poured down on Monrovia's Matilda Newport Square, named for Liberia's Joan of Arc. Sweat trickled down 20,000 Liberian backs, stood in heavy drops on the foreheads of notables who were clustered in the shade of a palm-leaf booth. Five little girls in white-frilled ginghams held wreaths emblazoned with the names of Liberia's five counties. Six brass bands blared hard and the Liberian National Choir waited its turn. The tiny African Republic, founded for freed slaves from the U.S., was ready for the inaugural of its 17th President...
...think it's hard to climb a mountain and sing, you try it one of these days. Try it when the July sun comes down upon your back with blisterin heat and the lizards are scurryin over the dead leaves ahuntin a wisp of shade on the backbone of a mountain that is steamin in the swelterin heat like a pan of bread in an oven. ... I hurried up to the grave to look down in it. It wasn't as deep as I was tall. . . . On another grave was a tattered flag, that the wind had faded...