Word: speaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LEADERS SPEAK...
...with a take-it-or-leave-it rule barring amendments. Appropriations Committee Chairman John Tabor whipped the Republicans into line. He got fervent support from Missouri's Dewey Short, who opened an attack on New Deal spending by disdaining the microphone and bawling: "I never did like to speak through a tin horn. It's like kissing a beautiful girl through a screen door...
...partisan Montreal, fans speak of The Rocket in the same breath with hockey's immortal Howie Morenz. Other hockey towns, which have heckled him by calling out "Ouvrez la porte, Richard," are now ready to agree that he is more than a wartime wonder...
...doctor (Elwyn Brook-Jones) patches him up for the sake of his own lost pride; the third man (F. J. McCormick) schemes to sell him to the highest bidder. Under these frenzied circumstances, the delirious hero shouts his own conversion and the story's master theme: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass . . . and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing...
...These liberals no longer speak of the perfectibility of man. . . . Whereas we used to hear of the glory, the progress, and the greatness of man, we now hear of his 'fate' and his 'predicament.'. . . What has all this to do with a possible revival of Calvinism...