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...Reader Kuebler is guilty of a careless misconstruction. TIME'S words were: "President Thomas Jefferson 132 years ago decided to uphold the doctrine of 'Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.' " Ambassador Pinckney was not the author of this phrase. The spokesman appears to have been Representative Robert Goodloe Harper of South Carolina on the occasion of a dinner given by Congress to John Marshall, just returned from France, at Philadelphia in June...
...standard Dictionary of American Slang, Lexicographer Maurice H. Weseen defines a "love nest" as "the home of a newly married couple." Uncovered last week in Culver City, Calif, was the most flagrant example in years of what every tabloid editor and reader means by a "love nest." None of the participants, mostly high-school students from Beverly Hills, was married...
...York Journal, selling the same encyclopedia, has in its volumes no word of Mr. Annenberg or his career, but it has got a nice item devoted to the word "neotrist,"† which they hired Lexicographer Charles Earle Funk to coin for them to describe a typical Journal reader. Mr. Annenberg's books haven't got that...
...casual reader of the financial columns must prepare himself for an extraordinary amount of nonsense out of Washington," wrote the New York Herald Tribune's cynical Edward H. Collins. "If present conditions maintain, for example, there is every reason to expect that in the next few weeks the rate of finished and unfinished steel production will be far exceeded, proportionally, by the amount of finished and unfinished balderdash emanating from the President and such alter-egoes as Mr. Eccles and Mr. Morgenthau...
...English literature." That she can be considered a disappointment indicates that she may be not just a highbrow writer but perhaps a great one. She is certainly the foremost woman author of her day. Her books are addressed not to a literary clique but to the Intelligent Common Reader. And the address is written in such a fine and flowing hand that even when it is illegible the hopeful addressee can find some profitable pleasure in puzzling over it. Even her obscurer books have something about them that attracts popular attention, for more than most stylists, she writes about...