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...Murderer Chung Yi-miao was dragged protesting to his cell, meticulous observers noted that the Lord Chief Justice had mistakenly referred to him as "Miao"-apparently supposing that to be his surname. Of course Chinese surnames or "last names" come first, and the Lord Chief Justice should have said, "Chung is guilty," unless His Lordship desired to refer to the prisoner familiarly by his given name, which was Yi-miao, not Miao...
Football writers are sentimental artists who enjoy calling things what they are not. Thus they speak of the Princeton team as "Tigers," though no live, wild tiger has been seen near New Jersey for many millions of years and they refer to the team which plays for the University of Nebraska as "Cornhuskers," merely for want of a better name. Last week, Coach Bearg and the Nebraska squad boarded a special train for West Point; on the squad were 34 men, though one of them, Willard Urban, who lost a coin toss to be the last man taken...
...would be more accurate, however, to refer to Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson as "the leading wet publisher in America." He is as outspoken as a wealthy publisher can be; and furthermore his Liberty, Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News are read by more than 4,000,000 people. His partner in these enterprises is his cousin. Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick. The two men are not one in editorial policy. Capt. Patterson, whose chief interest is the New York Daily News, supported Alfred Emanuel Smith in the campaign; every day, during the two months before election, the Daily News said...
Provoked, Editor Garvin alsc alluded savagely to the fact that smart Britons often refer to Britannia's editor as that bounder "Filbert Swankau...
...believe in the merit system of the civil service and I believe further thatat appointive offices must be filled by those who deserve the confidence and respect of the communities they serve." (This was taken to refer to Negro postmasters...