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...analyzing an argument you feel to be specious, always look for the hidden major premise." Never, since he began popularizing it in his classes at Yale 70 years ago, has William Graham Sumner's pregnant rule of thumb been more essential to straight national thinking than at the present moment...
...England and the democratic dominions as a means of winning the war and forming the nucleus of a World Government. Significant fact: KCKN, in the heart of the long isolationist Middle West, is owned and operated by Senator Arthur Capper, an anemometrist who has never had to wet his thumb to know how the political wind blows...
...vulnerable eastern hump of Brazil, which sticks out sore-thumb-like on all maps of U.S. grand strategy, is for one U.S. corporation already an active fighting front. The corporation: Pan American Airways. On the hump, Pan Am lines parallel Axis airlines; and there, at U.S. Government behest, Pan Am last week was busy improving or building twelve air bases, ringing the hump...
Almost a tradition is "Jeeves," billed as "the jokester-butler" in the publicity pamphlet which Mrs. Barnes has issued to drum up trade for her entertainers. "With his thumb in the soup and his tongue in his cheek, Jeeves does indeed keep the evening on its feet and jumping." What Jeeves does is entirely up to him, and once the party has begun no one knows, least of all the hostess, what's in store. "All I have to do is raise hell in a subtle sort of way," he modestly explains...
...thumb-in-the-soup technique, though. That's toe coarse. My main strategy is to concentrate on individuals. That works best at small gatherings, where there isn't too much liquor being served and nobody is drunk. Then I can work up a beautiful tension between the guests and the hostess. They fell terribly sorry and embarrassed at my antics, because they imagine I'm ruining the whole evening...