Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1910 — One of our Pet Phrases. [ARTICLE]
One of our Pet Phrases.
“Did any of the inhabitants escape with his life?” inquired the man who wants harrowing details. "I didn't stop to ascertain,” answered the man who is harrowingly exact. “It struck me that if anybody escaped without his life there wasn't much use in his escaping anyhow.”— Washington Star. It is awfully old-fashioned to belfteve that you are all right, and that other people are very wicked. A college man always talks more about it than is relished by men who have not attended college.
