Word: affronts
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...your issue of Oct. 19, under the heading LETTERS, there is a communication from a Mr. Edwards that is not very complimentary to TIME. I quote from his letter: "... why affront we Southerners. . ." The misusage of the pronoun "we" is painfully apparent to one who recalls his elementary grammar...
...omission of "Mr." where the Negro is concerned is a custom as old as the Negro problem itself - so why affront we Southerners by sticking it under our noses? You are never too old to learn, so why not stand corrected...
...avoid his family, to be alone and do nothing. Their solicitude stifled him. His Jewish son-in-law's florid devotion to the memory of Tom Outland-whom he had never known but whose inventions, willed to Rosamond St. Peter, had made him rich-was an affront to which bt. Peter could say nothing...
This practice, it seems to me, is wholly unnecessary, from your standpoint, and from that of the Southerner, assumes almost nauseating proportions. Furthermore, its protraction, in the face of previous protest, impresses me as a flagrant affront to the feelings of our people. If it be, as it appears, your desire to alienate and force from your ranks such readers of TIME as hail from the South, you are pursuing a most effectual course...
...assume in advance that he is too dangerous a character to admit to these shores because of his Communist beliefs would offer an affront to the British people. The way to spread such doctrines is to make martyrs of the spreaders. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church in more ways than one. I do not want to see the right of free speech more abridged on American than on British soil...