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Show Quotation Marks. Senator Beveridge, in an after-din- , ner speech In Cleveland, said of a cor- j rupt politician: "The man's excuse is as absurd as the excuse that a certain minister offered of-fered on being convicted of plagiarism. plagiar-ism. " 'Brethren,' said this minister, 'it Is true that I occasionally borrow for my sermons, but I always acknowledge acknowl-edge the fact in the pulpit by raising two fingers at the beginning and two at the end of the borrowed matter, thus indicating that it is quoted.' " |