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Condemned to misery and woe...
From Nantucket around Cape Cod, across Massachusetts Bay to Norman's Woe ("It was the schooner Hesperus") and Gloucester, behind Cape Ann, through Casco Bay and up the jagged coast of Maine toward Eastport, Franklin Roosevelt last week piloted his 45-ft. Amberjack II on the sportiest, saltiest vacation the country had ever watched its President take. He dressed in old flannel trousers and a grey sweater under oil skins. He did not bother too much about shaving. Sun and spray tanned his face, widened his grin. He smacked over codfish balls, baked beans, brown bread. And even...
...Church. Member of many boards and committees, including one which selects Sunday reading for all C. S. churches, President Ewing declared last week that Mrs. Eddy had foretold present conditions in Science Or Health: "The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness and death, which assume new phases until their nothingness appears. . . . Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization. This mental fermentation has begun, and will continue until all errors of belief yield to understanding...
...Jeremiah in a Republican wilderness, Secretary Hull long predicted ruin and woe from G.O. Policies on tariff and foreign affairs. Again & again he harped: "The practice of the half-insane policy of economic isolation during the past ten years by America and the world is the largest single underlying cause of the world panic. The mad pursuit of economic nationalism has proved disastrous...
...that day when a woman upset the staid order of affairs and sent the undergraduates into an uproar. There have been few more boisterous hours in Harvard's history than those between noon and 3 o'clock of November 14, 1902, when Carrie National made a whirlwind campaign to woe the student body from rum and nicotine. The Kansas hatchet-swinger, who personally broke enough whiskey bottles to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid modern prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls, where...