Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They have some truth. They have not all the truth, unfortunately. . . . And therefore, the presence in this locality of this temple of God, which represents the whole truth, the real truth, the fundamental truth. . . . gives the lesson every day that life can really dispense with every other sort of half truth...
When answered in the affirmative, Mr. Maude exclaimed, "You know, that is a shame. Why, I have always been a great supporter of college courses in dramatic writing. Before I ever came to this country I tried to persuade Oxford and Cambridge to adopt something of the sort. Mind you that was before I ever had heard of Professor Baker. The critics laughed at me and Punch published a rather humiliating but very amusing cartoon of Bernard Shaw. Barrie, and other well-known playwrights all sitting in front of a blackboard at school. Then when I came over here...
Passing over the fact that this is the sort of "mud" which the so-called Progressive throws every day, I should like to show the further fallacies of the statement...
Cash and securities were first packed in trunks in the old bank vaults, sealed and delivered to the express company, which placed them in armored cars bristling with artillery of various calibres and delivered them at the new building. About one hundred trips of this sort were necessary before the Reserve Bank's enormous assets were finally placed in the impregnable vaults of the new building...
...knowledge that they pack into their brains is, in every reasonable cultural sense, useless; it is the sort of knowledge that belongs, not to a professional man, but to a police captain, a railway mail clerk, or a board boy in a brokerage house. It is a mass of trivialities and puerilities; to recite it would be to make even a barber or a bartender beg for mercy. . . . Honor does not go with stupidity...