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...wife's actions. One "noble lord", says the news-dispatch, bewailed the fact that a husband could no longer indulge in "moderate correction" of his wife, which used to be perfectly legal when done with a stick no bigger than the thickness of his thumb. This gentle method of chastisement has now been taken away, perhaps because of too great disparity in width of thumbs, but the harassed husband is still liable for the mischievous behavior of his wife...
Another reason for the Socialist vote was the high tariff which the Government intends to impose on cereals, automobiles, etc., to meet the burdens imposed by the Experts' Plan. The Socialists saw in this measure proof that the Government was under the thumb of the grain-growing Junkers. As for the tariff on automobiles, the German trade in them was so hopeless that it would be years before it could catch up with foreign competitors. During this time, apparently, Germans will have to pay far more than the world price for their autos or go without them. Hence there...
Only the Italians knew. The Carbonari, meeting in the back rooms of cigar stores, the pungent lofts of fruit-mongers, passed the whisper with glittering eye and jerking thumb; the Black
...peat thumb-nail sketch of His Excellency's Intellectual fibre, as well as the crude educational level of Tennessee, is drawn later by his own equivocal words--"After a careful examination, I can find nothing of consequence in the books now being taught in our schools which this bill would interfere with in the slightest manner. Therefore, it will not put our teachers in any jeopardy. Probably the law will never be applied. It may not be sufficiently definite to permit of any specific application or enforcement. Nobody believes that it is going to be an active statute...
Golden Rule Not Rule Of Thumb...