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...easiest thing in the world unduly to dignify the distempered words of the Senator from Alabama. . . . The trouble in your State is that you have not enough Catholics. You seem to think of the Catholic as if he were a rawhead and bloodybones, a kind of ogre, some sort of monster swayed by entirely different feelings, sentiments, and impulses from the rest of us. If you had a few more Catholics in your State you would not indulge in such a gross misconception...
...kind of Chinaman shivered at Peking last week as thermometers read 10° below zero; but 1,200 miles southward, in Canton, quite another sort of Chinaman was as warm as a Miami mermaid. The two kinds of Chinamen could by no possibility have understood each other in Chinese, so different are their dialects. But the Yang-kuei tze ("Foreign Devil") has taught a few Chinese of every region English, especially the word "Nationalism...
...have here are pretty smart birds, and I expect some occasionally to put one over on the doctor. But I assure you, if you don't know this crowd, they would do that once in a while with any one. . . . Dr. Baker is an even-tempered, easygoing, commonsense sort of fellow, who has had lots of experience with prisoners and isn't likely to be taken in very much by them...
...outside cabin with an awning and an inside cabin whose leather benches can be made up as bunks at night. They have a little dining-room with benches on four sides, a bathroom up in the bow with a shower in it. The Elco Co. makes the same sort of boat for prices running from...
...Handbook, and add to this the number that attend its meetings or who are actively engaged on its committees or in its work, we shall find but few who do not profit in some way by the giving or accepting its service. Much of its work is of the sort that cannot be cried from the house tops, and so it is that in this age of advertisement the question may some times be asked "What does the Phillips Brooks House Association do?" The answer is, "It is quietly and deliberately carrying out the policy of its founders in promoting...