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...wasn't wrong. I was quite right. College men are divided into two classes of which the first or primary class is that including the gay young things or girls away from home because one doesn't marry until one has looked around a bit and father doesn't mind a little peace; of which the second or secondary class is that which includes thinking beings or those whose charm is as negligible as presidential repartee and whose pallor of feature is rouged alone by the faint fervor of a minimum intelligence. Oh! How dreadful...
...sarcastic in your review when writing upon Mr. T. Dreiser's book? Did you personally ever try to do a bit of real writing? Your reviews remind me a great deal of the Mexicans. They hate Gringoes like the dickens, but all they really do is snarl and growl like curs. In the Jan. 25, 1926 issue of TIME, under "Books," p. 31, you act like you have a personal grudge against the writer...
...known that he was sharply disappointed by the postponement of the preliminary disarmament conference of the League of Nations. He was quite polite of course, but made it plain that he did not like the postponement even a little bit...
...sailor, forgetting that under the Swedish "Goteborg System" spirits can be furnished only when solid food is also ordered. The barmaid, mindful of the law, refused to furnish a glass of brandy to the namesake of that mighty toper, Gustavus Adolphus, unless the Prince would order at least a bit of smorbrod...
...pleased but who invariably referred to the bathroom as "my bathroom" when anything, the Ivory Soap for instance, was missing. There was Mrs. Jollyco, a model wife and mother with a most engaging conversational manner, and so tactful that she did not offend Mrs. Folderol of Vanity Fair one bit when she told her that washing Baby Folderol with any soap but Ivory was bound to irritate his tender skin and was, in short, pure folderol. There was old Dr. Verity, who backed her up on this. The doctor had a son, Phil...