Sublime

If the men who took away beer as an unlawful pleasure had paused for a moment to define the lawful pleasures, there might be a different situation. If the men who had denied one liberty had taken the opportunity to affirm other liberties, there might be some defence for them. But it never occurs to them to admit any liberties at all.

Nothing went in print for a politician unless it was iron-clad.

It was not sufficiently religious, and, therefore, not sufficiently domestic; and the rich rode it down at last.

A pale man with pince-nez, he had the kind of face it is impossible to recall within five minutes of seeing it, and owed his appointment to the fact that all the other candidates for the Vice Chancellorship had enough personality to acquire enemies.

Southern France remained unoccupied, the government located in the provincial resort town of Vichy, headed by eighty-six-year-old Marshal Henri-Philippe Pétain, the hero of Verdun. The Vichy government was collaborationist. But it also reflected the aspirations of that element of French society who rejected the secular, egalitarian principles of th

He did not understand that French democracy became more democratic, not less, when it turned all France into one constituency which elected one member.

Ostensibly, Howe’s duties involved labor relations, special investigations, and speechwriting. He also took charge of patronage, handled Roosevelt’s correspondence, made appointments for his boss, wheedled postmasterships for deserving upstate Democrats, and kept his finger on the pulse of New York politics, building an organization to challenge Ta

The ticket hall was teeming, there were wide walkers everywhere, the name he gave to people who wade rather than walk, or have bags on either side of them, or have some other kind of inconsiderately expansive gait.