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A typical vice of American politics — the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.
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"Platform Insincerity" in The Outlook, Vol. 101, No. 13 (27 July 1912), p. 660.

 

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