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Unfortunately when it came to forcing Congress to take the necessary steps, he failed. The inertia and reluctance of pacifist or partisan representatives would have been broken by Roosevelt. But Wilson did mere lip-service to the principle of military efficiency.
When he lifted his hand from off that plough wherewith he had done the devil's work, he had made many enemies, and such as he had before he had made more powerful. People who had showed him lip-service when he was thought to be rich did not conceal the joy they had that he was brought down so near to be a beggar.
But one word out of his mouth, only one little word, one other name, and what then of this lip-service, and what of this mock-honour! Two days later Israel and his company reached before dawn the snake-like ramparts of Mequinez the city of walls.
They were a proud and energetic stock, these Bardi; conspicuous among those who clutched the sword in the earliest world-famous quarrels of Florentines with Florentines, when the narrow streets were darkened with the high towers of the nobles, and when the old tutelar god Mars, as he saw the gutters reddened with neighbours' blood, might well have smiled at the centuries of lip-service paid to his rival, the Baptist.
His soul kept its room, rarely rose, lounged on a couch, was torpid with the tepid langour still lulled by the sleepy mutter of mere lip-service, and prayers reeled off as by a worn-out machine of which the spring releases itself, so that it works all alone with no result, and without a touch to start it.
To this the powers gave merely lip-service, realizing that her fixed policy of isolation would restrain the United States from either diplomatic combinations or force. "The open hand," wrote Hay in discouragement, "will not be so convincing to the poor devils of Chinese as the raised club," nor was it so efficacious in dealing with other nations concerned.
As potent and effective as ever, in its fine comic irony, is that passage in which he expresses his "envy" of those people who pay lavish lip-service to scenes and works of art which their expressionless language shows they neither realize nor understand.
Wastefulness and corruption ran riot even in government circles, while hundreds of thousands of humble men and women voluntarily stinted and starved themselves beyond the rigid requirements of the law. Lip-service was paid to the principle of equality in sacrifice, and some efforts were made to enforce it.
So, when you look after this "American servant," you find alien blood, lip-service, a surface-warmth that flatters, but does not delude, a fidelity that fails you in sickness, or increased toil, or the prospect of higher wages; and you say to the "American servant," "How long have you been in Boston?" "Born in Boston, Ma'm, in Eliot Street, Ma'm." So was not Polly. Polly had lived with us always.
"I thought of my little sister, far away in Alabama, fancied she came to me, and muttered, 'Amy, kiss me, good-by. The women sobbed at that; but the girl bent her sweet compassionate face to mine, and kissed me on the forehead. That was my wife." "So you seceded from Secession right away, to pay for that lip-service, hey?" "No, Thorn, not right away, to my shame be it spoken.
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