Word: utters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspapers. One debates national affairs in college but one does not consciously prepare for a public career. One mistrusts oratory and is, in any case, incapable of it. The brothers La Follette of Wisconsin are incomprehensible exceptions. Most U. S. college men would blush to hear themselves utter the kind of thing contained in young Mr. Churchill's lectures...
...facts cannot be changed, no matter how much they are repressed or glossed over. The Legion Convention in Boston was marked by the utter prostration of civic and business leaders, for either political or actual capital, before a large class of Legionnaires who indulged in scenes of vice and orgiastic revelry beyond the comprehension of any but eye-witnesses. No war record is any excuse for such depravity. The total suspense of law brought about a state of anarchy which invited the worst among the Legionnaires, and there were many of this class, to join with the scum...
There are only a few changes in the rules this year: a player cannot make a fair catch unless the ball has gone over the scrimmage line. Coaches on the bench are not allowed to utter abusive remarks. Players coming out of a huddle must hesitate at least one second before the ball is put in play...
Said Mr. Youngquist: "The law-enforcing agencies of Government . . . are not much more than the framework in an organization of the kind required . . . one agent to every 70,000 [inhabitants]. The utter impossibility of making enforcement effective by that means alone is at once apparent. . . . And the States have machinery ready to work. . . . The number [of State officers] is probably near 175,000 now, as compared with a force of 1,750 agents in the Bureau of Prohibition...
Brother Bert had a way with women and, to the utter amazement of the London Graphic editors, turned up with an intimate photo of Queen Victoria at breakfast with two princesses. When the good queen died, Bert photographed, solemnly and well, the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra. Elmer, too, got along well with royalty. Armed with a special permit from the Tsar he penetrated the secrecies of Peter and Paul fortress and-unheard of!-photographed the tombs of the Tsar's imperial ancestors. Thereafter an array of grand dukes and even His Holiness the Metropolitan (head...