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...surprised that TIME, with its zeal for factual. description, should have been so bamboozled...
...Louis Arthur Buie of the Mayo Clinic said that after draft officials got over being choosy and started sending along pilonidal cyst cases, "overconscientious" Army & Navy surgeons began operating on all cysts, even uninfected "dimples." Purpose: to remove the possibility of a cyst crisis at the front. This zeal put so many men to bed that an order came down saying in effect: "Do not do dimples...
Said St. Louis' Bishop John Calvin Broomfield: "Not since the palmy days of the great Christian Endeavor conventions have I witnessed such zeal, and such an outpouring of the people...
...this is the very logic which explodes the theory itself. What safety can there ever be in a hereditary monarchy when even a ruler with a fairly enlightened point of view is nothing but the tool of the faction in power? . . . The religious zeal of Japanese loyalty and patriotism must be broken, and through the Emperor, if humanism is ever to penetrate to the Nipponese themselves...
Dewey & the G.O.P. Many a citizen is still leary of Dewey-for reasons which range from A) a much-publicized theory that his zeal as prosecutor led him to disregard the fine points of civil liberties, to Z) a vague but widely-shared impression that he is a little too perfect to be true. Even among G.O.P. bigwigs, he still inspires some private resentment...