Word: swine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WONDERFUL VISIT?H. G. Wells and St. John Ervine, two very thoughtful gentlemen, teach an angel the futility of pearls before swine...
...condition which caused guests of the Silk Association of America at a dinner in Manhattan to hiss me when I declared for tax reduction and soldier bonus too. Said I: 'They hissed and booed, blatted and squealed like a barnyard filled with frightened cattle, geese and swine. It is a most interesting example of mass hysteria. I never more enjoyed a clinic in mental nervous diseases. . . Children who act one-tenth as bad are punished...
...content with the knowledge of the technician. The very fact that a liberal education is possible to only a few should make those few all the more desirous of taking advantage of their unusual opportunities. For, where pearls are scarce, it is unthinkable that they should be cast before swine. It is the duty of the liberal college to see that no one who does not want a liberal education be allowed to prevent those who do from enjoying that privilege...
...memorial chapel. But, as we remarked in a sentence which the editor has wisely avoided quoting, we do not believe a new chapel would have any such effect. It would seem rather like salt for a bird's tail--though perhaps "Life" would call it pearls before swine...
...Roosevelt. "Theodore Roosevelt ... sent the following telegram: 'Good Lord, I hope we can beat Pettigrew for the Senate. That particular swine seems to me, on the whole, the most obnoxious of the entire drove...