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That move was not without political astuteness. It aligned against him a good many political leaders of both parties, but it was the only way in which he could avoid at once being wrapped in the shroud of Vice Presidential insignificance. Besides, the public has of late manifested no little disgust for the methods of Congress, the Senate in particular. Under present circumstances, it is not unlikely that the Senate will go on during the next four years in the same manner in which it has gone on for the last four years, "dawdling," in the manner which has left...
...first place, it was built as a memorial. Now, a memorial is always a monument to the past, not the future a sort of graveyard for old memories. Surely, then, it is nothing short of profanation to think of ousting these memories from the mouldy shroud in which they have now slept for half a century. The dust of years lies thick upon the carved rafters. Since the closing of the hall, perhaps bats already flit about in the colored gloom that sifts through the stained glass windows at midday. Through the deep silence a solitary watchman sees the spider...
...shalt-nots who thrive and grow fat throughout the land. Who shall deny them their birthright? Shall the Salem witches have died in vain? Shall the ghost of Roger Williams be mute? Shall the eighteenth amendment be robbed at last of its point and meaning? Cotton, Mather rattles his shroud in horror at the mere suspicion that censorship is un-American. The Ziegfeld Follies may be a "National Institution', but one must never forget that censorship was in the field first. Censorship came over in the Mayflower, and can claim blue blood equal to the bluest of the blue...
...line that is to fulfill the Old Testament prophecy of the second coming of the Son of God. In their midst he had died. They carried him over the long river bridge in sombre procession to a hill without the city, and buried him at sunset, simply, in white shroud and plainest wooden coffin...
...Jura answers through her misty shroud...