“I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined, or hard to check, as a socially ambitious mother.”

— Will Rogers

Daily Telegram #1808, Mr. Rogers' Heart Goes Out To Our Envoy To St. James's (10 May 1932) in The New York Times, 11 May 1932 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0A15FA3E5A13738DDDA80994DD405B828FF1D3 <br class="br">Daily telegrams

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