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Commander Edward Breck, Former American Vice-Consul to Germany, and now President of the Anti-Steel-Trap League, made this statement, emphasizing that he was "not a sob-sister but a regular sportsman. Being a gentleman and a huntsman, to say nothing of being an officer, I feel that using a steel trap is atrocious...
...churches, vulgar and profane English hymns, composed evidently by people who have no faith but plenty of maudlin sentiment, have been sung at the end of the ritual. One of these hymns, 'Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,' a flagrant outrage to faith and the ritual, seems to be the favorite sob-producer...
Five sets of championship ten-nis can make strong men sob., To play those five sets a man must have a sturdy heart; a stomach un-corroded with strong drink, a breath uncontaminated by cafe smoke...
...jurors heard the witnesses, and saw them under cross-examination, and no matter what the presiding judge said, he had no right to charge the jury on a question of fact, and the only issue in this case is on the facts. To follow the suggestion of these sob sisters and sob brothers would be a direct attack on the judiciary of this great old Commonwealth...
...mortals all, oblivious of Appleby's existence, oblivious of all save the stirring words of Dr. Casey of the Boston Police delivering the Baccalaureate Sermon. He was carrying the Class of 1927 to a pitch of spiritual elevation which would carry them through life; some were already beginning to sob gently when...