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Those whose statesmanship consists in some hand-to-mouth shift for the moment, whose wisdom consists in refusing to look either back to the past or onward to the future, cannot understand this great fact of our times; and what they cannot understand they mock at. But the fact exists and does its work in spite of them.
The American college graduate seems like a child beside him so far as these things are concerned. We are content to live a hand-to-mouth mental existence on a haphazard diet of newspapers and the lightest novels.
If you analysed it if you traced the general cry home to particular people you always found that those people were incapables. The fact was, farming, as a rule, was conducted on the hand-to-mouth principle, and the least stress or strain caused an outcry. He must be forgiven if he seemed to speak with unusual acerbity. He intended no offence. But it was his duty.
The answer is simple: Eight millions could still exist if the potato crop were a certainty, and if the people were now content to exist as they did then. But to the then existing population living at best in a light-hearted and hopeful, hand-to-mouth contentment there was a terrible awakening.
Ratapoil was an evocation of the same general character, but with a difference of nuance the ragged political bully, or hand-to-mouth demagogue, with the smashed tall hat, cocked to one side, the absence of linen, the club half-way up his sleeve, the swagger and pose of being gallant for the people.
"It isn't just Whitaker and the sunsets and the desire to exchange the sham of my 'art' for the truth of something real," said Brian. "It's everything. It's the studio here and things like like the shotgun. I hate the brilliant, disorderly hand-to-mouth sort of Bohemia, Kenny, in which you seem to thrive. Either we have a lot of money or a lot of debts " Garry nodded.
What she wanted was not a hand-to-mouth existence of precarious intrigue: to one with her gifts the privileges of life should come openly. Already in her short experience she had seen enough of the women who sacrifice future security for immediate success, and she meant to lay solid foundations before she began to build up the light super-structure of enjoyment.
That famous first class is now in its Senior Year, and by the time this book comes from the press will be scattering itself among thirteen centres of help and health. And so, in rented buildings, the Medical School started life. If ever an institution passed its first year in a hand-to-mouth existence, this one has.
It was a hand-to-mouth policy, resting upon so precarious a foundation that, in the light of experience, we can only wonder that eminent and otherwise conservative bankers should have adopted it to the extent they did, thereby not only jeopardizing their own position, but imperiling the whole financial community.
"His failure don't amount to very much," Henry remarked; "he has always done business in a sort of hand-to-mouth way." "I am surprised that Arnault permitted him to go down," Graydon said; "it couldn't have taken very much to keep him up." "It is said that Arnault will have nothing to do with him, and that this fact has hastened his downfall." "Well, so she played it too sharp on him, also.
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