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...never chooses a monosyllable when a polysyllable will do. To him lobbyists are "obscene harpies." Fellow-Senators settle back for a quarter-hour's solid amusement when he strikes such a forensic vein as inspired his essay on the Democratic Donkey: "He is a braying compendium of stately dignity, stanch endurance, fortitude and patience. ... In our quadrennial Presidential campaigns there is more music in his raucous hee-haw than in the midnight minstrelsy of a nightingale. The donkey is a serio-comic philosopher, whose stamina and stoicism conquered the wilderness . . . a sure-footed creature of epicurean taste and gargantuan appetite...
...handful of Indians kept themselves warm smashing rocks. In quest of the precious, bluish-white metal called tin, they found only dull reddish dirt. The Indians, craving alcohol and coca leaves, wanted to quit. One day they cracked out a few grains of tin. Later a full-fledged vein was uncovered. The Bolivian went to catch some Ilamas, loaded them with tin ore, plodded down to La Paz. Soon all Bolivia had heard that Simon Patino, onetime grocer's clerk, was growing rich...
...would believe that the President considers lending his sanction to a program which would revolutionize our system of government without proper discussion. It is hard to believe that the braintrusters intend to accomplish what their lightly bandied words insinuate. But apparently some of them have been talking in this vein. It seems a dubious proposition also that a full investigation of Dr. Wirt's charges will be conducted when he testifies. Undoubtedly, he will be asked to identify his informants and that will be that. Even if a non-partisan committee afterwards carries on their own investigation actual facts...
Stretched on an operating table in Baltimore's Sinai Hospital one morning last week lay a patient waiting to have his prostate gland removed. Instead of clapping an ether cone over his face, the anesthetist slipped a hypodermic needle into a vein in the crook of his elbow. In 20 seconds he lay unconscious, utterly limp. Six minutes after the operation was over he hoisted himself off the table, drank a glass of water, called for a "good big breakfast...
This remark came early in an address entitled "Can We Rehabilitate the Criminal," Bates, a solidly built, quick-witted, unaffected speaker, began his remarks in this vein: "I daresay there is considerable difference of opinion here on this subject. Furthermore, I am a bit hesitant about talking penology before such a gathering as this--between the Gloomy Gluecks on the one side and the Guiltless Gill on the other. (Loud and prolonged clapping) If I had said guilty, (aside to Gill) I suppose there wouldn't have been any applause...