Edna Ferber Quotes
A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
Ferber, Edna. A Peculiar Treasure. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1939.
Hubert H. Humphrey, the Vice President-elect, departed from his presidentially cleared text in giving a speech on education. The President was not happy with this independence:
Pride, sense of dignity and self-respect are powerful and dynamic forces that have been constantly underestimated by occupiers and invaders throughout history. In the case of China, it was not the foreign militaries per se that were responsible for the resentment but the diplomats, merchants and missionaries using the protection and threat of the foreign military that did most of bullying.
Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1930; adapted into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Giant (1952; made into the 1956 film of the same name) and Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960.