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...this, in Marblehead's annual Art exhibition, is painting No. 1, by John P. Benson. Once port of call for East Indiamen, rich and important, with tea, silks and spices piled in its warehouses, the old town drowses now, lost in the hush of a dream. Wharves rot; rats squeak in deserted storerooms ; tiny pleasure-craft have replaced the tall schooners, rich Summer residents the bustling Tory merchants. However, quaint local traditions, local characters, still survive. There is the Poet Postman, unique Man of Letters, who for 30 years has delivered bills and dreamed of billet-doux, has written...
...Prof. Archibald T. Robertson, of Louisville, lectured seven times to preachers on the subject of preaching. He warned them against "rote, rut and rot...
...decadence. The book is one more powerful and pessimistic description of the kind of society which produced the War?and judging by the observed results it is difficult to say that the descriptions have been overdone. It was, as Mr. Wassermann sees it, a society involved in the dry rot of overcivilization, going rapidly down "the great slide" because of a great decay. The translator's title is unnecessarily stressing the obvious when it insists that the book is about money?but more accurately it is about greed?greed for money and for other things as well. Wassermann's world...
Among the 500 names now in the Editor's hands, the most popular seem to be "dry rot", "camelouse", and "dryad". But the sponsor of "scofflaw" comes in for his share of the scorn. A "Boston deb" has entered the word "Delcevare" as best stimulating a dry. She desires that the prize be held and awarded to the person writing the best essay on "Why it is a stinging insult to call a man Delcevare." Most of the entries, however, have come from married women and on all sorts of paper, some scrawled in pencil on scraps, others neatly written...
There are all these disadvantages money, rot, the "many headed beast", dirty politics et al. Yet in the end the career is one that still remains some what individualistic. Mr. Waterson on resigning from the "Courier Journal" became "Editor Emeritus" because due to his predecessor's and his own efforts and personalities the paper had become as much an institution as any university...