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...last week, poring over the American Mercury for February, a Crimson editor came upon "Answer No. 62" in Editor H. L. Mencken's "Notes and Queries" department. The paragraph read...
Boiling with loyal rage, the Harvard editor fumbled through a back file of the Mercury until he found "Query No. 62" to which his fellow collegian had made reply. This other paragraph read...
Action on the request was prompt. Three days later the following paragraph was published in Army Orders...
...case of William Mitchell, Colonel of U. S. aviation, found guilty of conduct "to the prejudice of good order and military discipline," went to the President's desk for review. The paragraph that the presidential eyes came especially to rest upon was the one that read: "Upon secret written ballot the Court sentences the accused to be suspended from rank, command and duty, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances, for five years" (Time, Dec. 28). Col. Mitchell's adherents had been hoping that the President would delete that "five" and write "two" or perhaps "three." They...
...first paragraph allayed suspicion somewhat. It told of dentists, two U. S. dentists, itinerant in Ecuador. The next paragraph was rather dull description of the dentists. But, ha! another dentist! an Ecuadorian of no high ethics. He filled teeth with tin and copper instead of gold. Trembling with apprehension the parents read on, ons not a long storyd for reasons which were not explained had been allowed to accumulate the dust of a quarter century. It had not been written by H. L. Mencken, colyumist, lexicographer, magazine editor, the man who named the Baptist Belt and who derides his less...