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...asked, "didn't someone quietly drown Rudolph Guglielmo (alias Valentino) years ago? . . . Chicago has its powder puffs; London, its dancing men, Paris its gigolos. Down with Decatur; up with Elinor Glyn. Hollywood is the national school of masculinity. Rudy, the beautiful gardener's boy, is the prototype of the American male. Hell's bells! Oh, sugar...
Contempt. If the Chicago Tribune and its noisy offspring, Liberty, had their way, they would persuade ignorant readers that Stephen Decatur's ". . . our country right or wrong" is the greatest patriotic phrase ever mouthed. But executives of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of Manhattan last week invited Dr. Minot C. Morgan of Detroit to be their associate pastor (at $12,000 yearly), he who damned that phrase as "a damnable toast of some patriotic Americans...
...business meeting, other matters transacted were: re-election of officers: ? Dr. Charles F. Thwing (Western Reserve, emeritus), President; Dr. Francis W. Shepardson (Chicago), Vice President?and granting of charters to new chapters at Agnes Scott College, (Decatur, Ga.), University of South Carolina, College of Wooster (Wooster, Ohio), University of South Dakota, University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.), University of Kentucky, Occidental College (Los Angeles, Calif), University of Idaho...
...Decatur, Ill., The Decatur Review segregated telegraphic crime news to a lower left-hand corner of the front page labelled "Crime." At the end of a week, said ministers: "Undue attention is called." Others commended...
...newspapers are without a slogan or motto. The Chicago Daily Tribune, for example, runs that estimable sentiment of Stephen Decatur's: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." The New York World has an even longer battle-cry, a rhetorical utterance by Joseph Pulitzer defining the whole duty of newspapers. The chaste New York Times says merely : "All the news that's fit to print." The Springfield Republican lets it go at: "All the news, and the truth about it." The Louisville Courier-Journal clinches matters...