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...your Original Subscribers and I believe my attitude toward TIME is typical of the old guard. We do not want TIME changed! Since occasional younger fry - subscribers with only half a dozen copies on the shelf - delight to flay you, may I draw my quill in your defense ? Some of these nouveaux readers have criticized your repetition of "famed" (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 2). May I state that the old guard likes TIME'S distinctive and original use of "one" and "famed" which you employ before the name of an individual exactly as Baedecker used one or two asterisks...
...shovel. If the beggars attempted to use gloves, he hurled boiling water upon them instead. When the moon was full, he hurled nothing at all. Occasionally he wrapped lumps of coal in £100 notes ($500) and heaved them at submissive heads. Countless eyewitnesses testify to his evident delight in scorched palms and bruised flesh. For many years he journeyed often to London and personally drew the gold and silver which he scattered, from a bank which allegedly received some $20,000 a week from the administrators of his property in the U. S. For years a group of London...
...little ball hither and yon over the field and running, running, running at a pace too fleet and steady even for fit Britishers, the Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pa.) lacrosse players last week plunked home 11 goals to 8 plunked by an invading combination from Oxford and Cambridge. Surprise and delight were universal. Just previously, the formidable British dozen had crushed Pennsylvania...
...Gerald Thom' a youth who is having his expenses paid through college by some unknown benefactor and who has not sufficient money to mingle with the more aristocratic students, was received with special disfavor. Coins were added to the missles thrown and jingled on the stage to the intense delight of the student body present...
...admire a girl who, with a horrible example staring her in the face, can go off with a firm determination on the same chase? Does the sight of Romance battling with the forces of Society and The Right Thing, faltering, seeming to lose, and then winning after all, delight your soul? Go to the Circle. Lost in its labyrinths you will cry out, "But things like this don't happen." As indeed they...