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...days of yore, the good citizens of Athens filed past the urns and as they passed each one dropped a white shell or a black. If the black shells were more numerous than the white, then woe be to the man concerning whom the shells were cast, for he was ostracized and for ten years under pain of death must remain an exile from his native city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Home, Sweet Providence | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...have promised the post office employes to increase their pay. If we don't, they will do for us certainly. We have promised to stand by Coolidge and economy?that means raising rates, second class in particular. If we do that, the press will jump on our necks. Oh, woe is us! Ah, woe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postal Pay | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...their intention to exact this un-bankerlike concession from the next congress, as it forced the bonus from the last. The Legion may still be led on the still-hunt for indigo-colored witches; but in the matter of the payment of war, it knows its own mind, and woe be to the quaking financiers who oppose it. If the former soldiers embark on such a tempestuous career of political change, they will soon be labeled "socialistic" by their former allies, and the great Fascist alliance of American capital and ex-soldiery will be split asunder. It the Legion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO'LL PAY THE PIPER? | 12/16/1924 | See Source »

...lanky, long-necked clergyman emerges from the Deanery of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, shuts behind him the learning of 40 centuries, gazes wearily down a hill black with automotive traffic, whispers: "Woe, woe is this perverse generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Logothete* | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...partly by his faculty of such sententious utterance that Ambassador Davis won so high a place in the esteem of judicious Englishmen. His successor at London may have occasion to know the woe of the man that cometh after the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: THE PRESS: Papers and Politics | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

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