Word: tweedledums
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...denominations in the world," an Episcopal bishop once said: "the Catholics, standing on one side for the authority of the church, the Baptists, standing on the other side for the authority of the Bible. All the other denominations should be united, for the difference between them is that between Tweedledum and Tweedledee." Christian history knows the Baptists as a dissident people-crotchety, intransigent, sometimes rude, if not downright dangerous in the eyes of the orthodox...
...Tweedledum is finally out of it-if we can rely on his Jefferson-Jackson Day speech. If Tweedledee only had enough foresight...
...Washington Post, which usually does not endorse presidential aspirants, lined up squarely for Eisenhower. Truman against Taft, said the Post, would be Tweedledum against Tweedledee. "Eisenhower would be the dynamic force to rejuvenate our politics . . . restore our political health and give new life to our institutions...
...Tweedledum and Tweedledee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedledum said Tweedledee Had spoiled his nice new rattle...
Congressman John Elliott Ranlcin of Mississippi, who hopes to succeed his late, filibustering Tweedledee, Theodore Bilbo, in the Senate, let go a memorable tweedledum as he promised to carry on the filibustering. "A filibuster is legitimate," said he, "when it is legitimate...