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...American demands the impossible 100 per cent, perfection: he simply must win. . . . England's greatness was built by taking losses. . . . When colonies and nations and states, including the southern United States, were unable to pay . . . England, like a big businessman dealing with a customer, did not get sore and demand the last penny...
What the Public Can Do is to go promptly, fearlessly to a doctor with the first sign of what might be Cancer. Such signs include: any unusual lump in the flesh, especially in the breast; any persistent sore; any queer acting mole, wart or other skin peculiarity; any dribble of blood from the mouth or other body openings...
...sporadic threats of a new war memorial chapel to replace Appleton have once more started to rustle through labyrinths of Harvard. These innuendos rise and fall with the regularity of a tooth ache coming from a sore spot long known but little attended to. Behind the curtain that obscures the actual facts there remains one substantial fact, and that is that at present there are funds in the hands of a committee, but this money is inadequate...
...there's a sore point: the old rover is homesick. With the best of intentions and a desire to keep pace with progress he packed himself off to Lowell House last year, determined to take part in the new Harvard. But after all, it's pretty hard to teach an old dog new tricks and, frankly, the Vagabond is not happy in his new lodgings, even the men who paint his tower have conspired to make him blue. The youngsters round about him seem happy, but the sound of insular accents and the sight of foreign customs are too much...
...through Wilson's time). Retorted he: "I'm not in the vaudeville business. This is a serious matter. I'm not exulting over the defeat of a woman. Mrs. McCormick made a valorous fight." Senator-elect Lewis stopped, coughed, explained a bug had flown down his throat, left it sore...