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Finally Judge Yule stepped forward, patted "Sargo's" flank. The crowd gave a whoop of delight. Yule mopped his brow and crammed a cigar into his mouth. He was later heard to declare: "I think maybe the Hereford had a little more cover on the loin...
Acceptance. Wendell Willkie was constrained and formal. The crowd could let out a whoop when he began with a reference to the traditions of the acceptance speech: "I take pride in the traditions and not in change for the mere sake of overthrowing precedents." But how could it do more than dutifully applaud when he heavily promised a campaign on principles-"not on the basis of hate, jealousy, or personalities?" And Wendell Willkie seemed to have lost the buoyance that had marked his whole campaign and that had brought the thousands to Elwood...
Those who are most vocal want you to whoop it up, not to think it out. I plead for strength before we bait the bear." >At Cooper Union (Manhattan), Case School's President William Elgin Wickenden told graduates: "The decades of illusion and self-indulgence are over. Your generation may never know security of wealth, of employment, perhaps even of life itself." >Owen D. Young (at Syracuse): "I cannot say that the insistent cry of youth today-jobs, not war'-is wrong, but I can say that unless you are prepared for the second you may never have...
...good Cézanne, a very expensive Gauguin. But as late as 1926 F. W. Coburn, art critic of the Boston Herald, still denounced modernism in the tones of a Cotton Mather. To Pundit Coburn, Cézanne was a poor painter whose good dinners caused his friends to "whoop it up for him and get his pictures admitted to places where they wouldn't otherwise have been received"; van Gogh was "a crazy galoot who cut off his own ear to spite a woman"; Gauguin was a failure who ran off to the South Seas because he couldn...
Socialism as an economic doctrine played little part in the reforms of efficient, practical Dan Hoan. In 1935 Socialists merged with Progressives, and Mayor Hoan ran for re-election as a member of the Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation. But "Red" was the whoop still raised by Milwaukee Republicans and conservative Democrats, and this year, with Dan Hoan up for re-election the seventh time, "Red" was the whoop they raised again. Republicans and conservative Democrats lined up behind his rival, a former assistant city attorney, Carl Frederick Zeidler...