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...Caxton Hall, London, Mr. Baldwin began his fight with a vigor and alertness which flabbergasted as much as it pleased his friends. As Prime Minister the shaggy sheep dog was often lazy, muddling and inept-sometimes disgracefully so. On a public platform during the "Lord's Prayer," he would fiddle with his notes twitch his nose or scratch his ear (instead of praying), and later he would cross one leg over the other and look bored (instead of standing on both feet and joining in "God Save the King"). Indeed as Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin resembled exactly an amiable...
Taxi Weekly discreetly avoids stirring any controversy within the ranks, but is quick to pounce upon threats from without, great or small. In 1927 it campaigned successfully against proposed legislation to raise insurance rates on cabs. And with scarcely less vigor it commanded the attention of Mayor James John Walker to the case of a Jewish driver who had been deprived of his license for refusing to pick up a passenger on Yom Kippur Eve. A two-year battle with the police department forced the opening of "star chamber" hearings of drivers, stamped out police practices by which cabmen...
...American pot-holding gentry. There are present many surprising word arrangements, many sprawling sentences, even a few errors in grammar that are apparent to an undergraduate, but then, as the publishers say in a foreword, the manuscript of the book was left unaltered for fear of spoiling the elemental vigor of it all. But if this is damning with faint praise, we'll go further any say that "Close Hauled", granting excuses, is second rate...
...wielder of rhetorical thunders. Meyer concentrates, impresses with fine delineation rather than overwhelms with sheer quantity and force. His is the method of the finished artist: but he does not let artistry crowd out the living appeal of his work, and the latter has by no means lost its vigor in the English Version...
...Kerr: "When God blesses the Presbyterians, he blesses also the Methodists and the Episcopalians and the Baptists." Because "today the line [of religious vitality] shows a decline," he expects a period of robust Evangelism to commence very soon, perhaps this 1900th. Pentecostal year. One means of rousing religious vigor which he recommended...