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...critical, sarcastic, Boob-Baiter Henry Louis Mencken should abandon the American Mercury and edit a Happiness Monthly and Rotarian Booster, it would not arouse greater surprise than the announcement from Moscow last week that a new Soviet magazine. Our Achievements, has been started under the editorship of Maxim Gorky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Happy Gorky | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Pope-baiter's son, James Thomas Heflin Jr., was removed last week from a ship of the Panama Pacific Line to the Samaritan Hospital, Panama. He suffered from "acute indigestion." His cabinmate, Utah Representative Elmer O. Leatherwood, nevertheless asked for different accommodations, said young Tom-Tom had been drunk every day since he left Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Tribune v. Kellogg. Many a Paris news organ prominently quoted with alarm, last week, a truly amazing editorial in the usually 100% Republican New York Herald Tribune, famed Wilson-baiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Triumph of Kellogg | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...Coolidge should be an adept at the game of baiting, since so much of his time passes in watching and ignoring the lines thrown out by an army of baiters who spend their energies in endeavoring to get a rise out of him. An adept in the game of political angling, both as baiter and baited, finds a real recreation in dealing with a tribe whose wiles are of a more subtle order. The landing of a brook trout gives infinitely deeper satisfaction than the discomfiture of a poor political fish or fisherman. Further, there can be little doubt that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LE ROI S'AMUSE | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

Then, after a little snuffling among sham issues, three candidates to succeed Dr. Lowell were examined. First came large, gentle Dr. R. B. Merriman, "author of stately volumes on the Spanish Empire which few have read but all admire. Great Catholic-baiter. A man of means, whether his own or his wife's our sources do not inform us." But, questioned the scurrilous one, if Dr. Merriman were the Elisha of the University, why did Dr. Lowell delay resigning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard Irked | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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