Relief Ace

Famous quotes containing the words relief and/or ace:

    “The first general store opened on the ‘Cold Saturday’ of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the store’s promoter, recorded in a letter: ‘Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets’; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.”
    —Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “I do not object to Gladstone’s always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve, but only to his pretence that God had put it there.”
    —Henry Labouchere (1831–1912)