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...your delightful periodical. I herewith quote a criticism on the subject of an article that appeared in an issue several weeks ago [TIME, March 28] to the effect that the German Envoy to Latvia was making himself and his country popular by taking to the local customs and drinking beer with the natives: "TIME seems a little misinformed. Dr. Koester has been here since Latvia was acknowledged as such by the Germans-not three months ago as TIME has it. It is true he is a florid beerbibber and goes in for 'Beer Abends' sing-songs -'very...
...EARLY WORM?Robert Benchley (Illustrated by Gluyas Williams)?Holt ($2). Funnyman Benchley's creek of comedy has by no means yet run dry. He babbles gently on in parody of Sherwood Anderson, H. G. Wells, Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Beer, polar expeditions, founding a night club, interviewing celebrities, solving crimes, stabilizing francs. His method of reductio ad imbecillum is to expound a subject in its simplest terms, putting caricaturist's emphasis on one or two superficial details. Example: "According to Dr. Max Hartmann . . . there is no such thing as absolute sex. If 60% of your cells are masculine you rate...
Prices. The Government Liquor Commission will establish prices. Forecast: Scotch $7 Canadian whiskey $5; beer $2. Beer will be sold at cost; wines and whiskeys at a profit...
What was more salutary, even and for an entirely different class was MacDonald's castigation of the smart set reformers who are fully as hypocritical and shallow as the hardest-drinking dry in the Senate. These are they who weep crocodile tears over the poor workmen robbed of his beer because their bootlegger's bills are exorbitant. It is well that as sane and char eyed a man as MacDonald should have reminded America that the working man gets a bank balance or a Ford in return for his deprivation. His words more than counters balance the drivel with which...
Somehow or other, it is in his parodies of prominent literary figures that Mr. Benchley outdistances all competition. "The Henna Decade" in five parts, is one of the glories of the group. Part 4 in particular, should bring to even the estimable Mr. Beer a series of not too quiet chuckles. "Milt Gross stood talking with Ring Lardner and another on the steps of the American Indian Museum. He had under his arm a bulbous bundle and this dropped incontinently to the granite pedestal as he shrugged his shoulders. 'A peckage skelps,' he said. 'Heendian skelps witt blad.' Lardner raised...