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...save to the reader. So Mr. Young will go on with encircling and increasing his vocabulary and, let us hope, his good judgment. Perhaps he will be so kind as to let a fellow reader into the secret of understanding strange discourses in unfamiliar terms. For he claims to delight in such...
From time to time I have been tempted to criticize certain minor editorial habits of TIME. I have refrained, largely because; of my delight in and enthusiasm for the magazine as a whole...
...assistants to the manufacturers of silk undergarments and cosmetics and high-priced cars. Industry prospers by reason of people who do not get their pleasure from Ideas but need Things to amuse them, playthings, who must have constantly changing and costly pleasures, who run about in motor cars, and delight in fads and fashions and luxuries of all sorts--100 per cent consumers, that's what Industry needs to keep the wheels revolving. The College furnishes plenty of them. Industry need not fear the College; the proportion of educated which it effects is so small as to be negligible...
Many people watched with delight this phenomenal rise. Among them was not S. S. Kresge. It is said that S. S. Kresge does not take delight in anything. Although he has brought happiness to thousands of investors in his stock, to millions of patrons of his stores, the personal life of this swart storeman is not a happy one. His first wife discovered, after living with him for a number of years, that he was "sulky," divorced him. His second wife, young, is suing for divorce and for $7,000,000 "heart balm." His stock is the highest listed...
...political progress on the firm conviction that the voice of the people is but the echo of those who lead them. In short, he caricatures democracy by giving the face of that goddess a Roman nose and by handing her a club, labeled "bunkum". And to those who delight in the raucous ribaldry of Mr. Mencken, and even to those who parade the pageant of their political pessimism a with perennial precision, these words seem the utterances of an oracle. Yet an oracle can have its tongue in its cheek, as Croesus discovered. Indeed, the sincerity of the editor...