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...attempt to bring capital and labor together "on the basis of national discipline," which means under the thumb of Fascismo, was made during the week...
...Barnum. Joice Heth, Jumbo the Great, Tom Thumb, "The Great Model of Niagara Falls, Real Water," the "Fejee Mermaid,"-yet "Hamlet without Hamlet would not be more impossible than the Museum would have been without Barnum...
...Murphy, each of whom holds the Democratic politics of a state (Illinois, Indiana, New York) securely between thumb and forefinger. They are known to be gentlemen who view with alarm the candidacy of William...
...these find a brave echo here. Even to so materialistic a theme as "Criticism in American-Periodicals", can such principles be applied-the principles of clear-sighted and unshaken adherence to faith and judgement. Nor are these principles held in the light of a sort of rule-of-thumb panacea, to be applied indiscriminately and with the joy of recent discovery; but rather as the proven standards of better men and better ages which we have for the time being allowed to lapse into oblivion...
...strong man who extricated himself from the pressure of a Tsar's thumb...