Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politics is not a game for Mr. Mellon for the reason that, unlike most public men but like many a great public man, he entered politics involuntarily and after experiencing extraordinary responsibilities in private life. A game is a thing you play. A duty is a thing you execute. Mr. Mellon has been an executive for nearly half a century. His father made him responsible for loans in the Mellon bank while he was still in his 'teens. Before he was 30, he was charged with administering his father's whole considerable estate. Thereafter he ruled and expanded...
...when he read in the newspaper that he had been named as a delegate-at-large to the National Republican convention of that year at Chicago. His first act was to ask Judge James H. Reed, his lawyer, father of Pennsylvania's present Senator, if the thing might not be avoided. Judge Reed said yes, of course it could be avoided, but he advised Mr. Mellon to accept as a matter of public duty. Mr. Mellon said he expected to be very occupied that coming June. Judge Reed said very well, that he would arrange to accompany Mr. Mellon...
...purpose of argument is after all to convince. School and college debates are prone to regard their exercise as an esoteric thing, entirely divorced from human conversation and understanding. This attitude leads to marshaling of facts and fancy, into an array which is presented in a fashion calculated only to get it all out on time. The new necessity to convince a body of intelligent fellow-beings whose sentiments have been sound already will lead inevitably toward a more careful preparation of briefs with special at tention to those qualities which make argument at once convincing and good to hear...
...reason why the usual number of two concerts might not be increased to three or four another year. There are three factors which enter into such a question: The expense, the time spent by the singers in giving concerts, and the factor of restraint in not overdoing a good thing...
...contains, for example, subchapters on "The Lost Sense of Sin and What to Do About It," and "What the Bible Can Do for Us." In a word it is frankly an interpretation of Christian theology on the basis of the Bible and the Church Fathers--much the same thing that is done in the average Sunday School and on ninety-nine out of a hundred pulpits...