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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fine writing." We know, as all writers (and especially journalists) know, that these words are overworked and unavoidably so, but to stigmatize them as "atrociously bad" is idiotic. Mr. Dowse has evidently not studied etymology or he would know that the word "atrocious" (Latin atrox, "fierce," "truculent") cannot be suitably applied in this connection. Again, he alludes, in a badly jumbled and incoherent sentence, to "the full clutch of circumstance." Apparently he is groping after a line from William Ernest Henley, whom, however, he has evidently not read. I recommend him to study Pope's famous line about...
...Fine Arts at Harvard University, and here by offer its hearty congratulations to its sister department, conscious as it is, that by reason of the close and sympathetic cooperation of the two departments, the prosperity of the one so signally insured by the completion of the new Fogg, cannot fail to be a stimulus and encouragement to the other, and be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be printed upon the minutes of the department, and transmitted to the division of Fine Arts of Harvard University...
Good luck to you, TIME. Run your own paper in your own way. You've made a success, unique, distinctive. Your critics couldn't have done it and they cannot tell you how to do it. Pay no attention to concellations which only purge your lists of those who do not belong to the cognoscente...
...York World Herbert C. Hoover said: "The levee system needs to be revised and strengthened and, above all, we must have some other safety devices which will relieve the strain on the levee system in periods of super-floods and make them absolutely sure once and for all. . . . We cannot abolish the levee system...
Parisian publishers cannot get M. Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau, famed "Tiger of France," to write his memoirs. They can only console one another by making a good story out of his sharp, testy rejoinders when they approach him. Last week one more disappointed and rebuffed seeker after the memoirs of M. Clemenceau told ruefully what "Le Tigre" had growled...