Realized that this country has gone so flabby that any gang daring enough and unscrupulous enough, and smart enough not to seem illegal, can grab hold of the entire government and have all the power a...
What nasty men! I do hope they get shot soon, which for Mrs. Candy was a startlingly long and humanitarian statement.
There was nothing to say to tragedy that had outlived hope.
The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the A...
She was used to gracious leisure, attractive uselessness, nut-center chocolates, and a certain wonder as to why she was alive.
She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull,
Is it just possible,' he sighed, 'that the most vigorous and obldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators?
HIS march to greatness was not without disastrous stumbling.
Author sees the congested idealism of the generally discontent as reservoir that will support centralized power even while disagreeing with many specific provisions.
يدهشني أن أجد أشخاصاً كثيرين يعرفون عن شؤوني الشخصية أكثر مما أعرفهعن نفسي.
And after saying good-by to him at the station, Babbitt returned to his office to realize that he faced a world which, without Paul, was meaningless.
Why, she said, with a smile which snapped back after using as abruptly as a stretched rubber band, didn't he take a nice walk?
The Reverend Elmer Gantry was reading an illustrated pink periodical devoted to prize fighters and chorus girls in his room at Elizabeth J. Schmutz Hall late of an afternoon when two large men walked...
The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
Summarized, the letter explained that he was all against the banks but all for the bankers-except the Jewish bankers who were to be driven out of finance entirely; that he had thoroughly tested (but u...
She was close in her husband's arms; she clung to him; whatever of strangeness and slowness and insularity she might find in him, none of that mattered so long as she could slip her hands beneath his...
She bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets.
People will think they're electing him to create more economic security. Then watch the Terror! God knows there's been enough indication that we can have tyranny in America-the fix of the southern sha...
Peace through Defense—Millions for Arms but Not One Cent for Tribute,