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...Cutrer, who was forced to resign as editor, said Dr. James M. Smith, University president, "told me he would not do anything to offend Senator Long; that he would rather fire me, my staff, destroy the School of Journalism, and fire 4,000 students...
...glaring spade-calling of such passages the Six-Year Plan may offend the squeamish for whom two-fisted Boss Calles cares nothing. In the words of General Cárdenas, the Plan lays down "a comprehensive program of action for 1) return of land to the villagers; 2) stimulation of education;* 3) improvement of public health; 4) promotion of irrigation; 5) extension of roads and railways and building up of our merchant marine; 6) industrialization of Mexico under close government control...
...Cherington says: "Not even Mr. Wade himself is inclined to criticize the Critic as a magazine." I am, but have refrained for fear that I might offend Mr. Cherington's cherished good taste and that I might discourage unfairly what in many ways is a laudable, if foolish and unnecessary attempt to resolve opinion at Harvard. I hope I shall not be accused of peevishness, if I remind Mr. Cherington of the fifth and sixth lines of the Dies irae...
...your daughter offend the older ladies by dancing in the newer, unladylike positions...
Eighteen years ago, Mary Pickford made her admirers weep with Poor Little Rich Girl. The Richest Girl in the World, an adult variation of the same theme, keeps its tongue in its cheek. It is a charming, energetic comedy, which should please the majority of cinemaddicts and offend no one except the Huttons and Prince Mdivani...