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...have yet to see any reference in TIME to things German that wasn't "guttural." For instance in TIME, Feb. 22, p. 12. ". . . an official condemnation of Mussolini which they voted with guttural acclaim." Of course the German language is guttural, but did the adjective improve the above sentence one bit ? I rather think it didn't. It "gets on my nerves...
...officer, one General Chang [not Chang Tso-lin], replied to an insinuation that China is ruining herself by civil wars: "I think your American Revolution was a sort of civil war, wasn't it? But you don't criticise Washington now for ruining his country...
Mary Pickford, Marion Davies, and now Patsy Ruth Miller have all been caught throwing ripe tomatoes, and as yet they haven't been punished for it. What we did wasn't nearly so bad anyway, because it never found its way into the movies. If it happens again we shall take the whole matter up with Will Hays...
...wasn't wrong. I was quite right. College men are divided into two classes of which the first or primary class is that including the gay young things or girls away from home because one doesn't marry until one has looked around a bit and father doesn't mind a little peace; of which the second or secondary class is that which includes thinking beings or those whose charm is as negligible as presidential repartee and whose pallor of feature is rouged alone by the faint fervor of a minimum intelligence. Oh! How dreadful...
...There wasn't any "Felix" cartoon on the program...