Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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And on this your learned Editor comments: "True or not, to the legend can be traced many recorded persecutions, etc."
"True or not," ye gods! So your learned Religious Editor is not really certain in his own mind whether or not Jews slaughter Christian children to their Jehovah! And it is he who is charged with providing religious information to your Christian and Jewish readers!
The War of 1812 produced a belated but powerful effect on the Academy, for it brought the appointment in 1817 of Major Thayer as superintendent, and an increase of the enrolment to 260. The easy-going discipline of the first years gave way to military exactitude, and this strict master...
Possibly certain earnest souls who take their politics as seriously as they do their humor will regret this lack of respect, will lament the thought that "the automobile and frigidaire companies dicate American politics, no matter who takes the trout-fishing trips." But on the other hand there is a...
Rollin Kirby, ace of Democratic cartoonists, is as fertile as he is facile. A slender little Scot, he sits under the gilded dome of the Pulitzer Building and does his job with dour thoroughness. He learned his line and perhaps some of his satirical sharpness under the late great Artist...