Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Voohnmad Sirs: Surely the signature to the enclosed is ficticious. Spell it backward and consider the result in connection witht he context of the letter. It cannot be merely a coincidence. It smacks of the recent Harvard hymn. I hope you didn't print it knowingly. M. L. HAVEY New York City...
...last week the sumptuously baroque club was con fiesta for some jovial Britons. Champagne popped and sizzled. Frankly the Britons admitted they were out for Argentine trade. Hospitably they were toasted and cheered. "Welcome! Welcome to Argentina!" cried Dr. Joaquin Sanchez de Anchorena, oldtime toastmaster of El Club. "I cannot praise too highly British achievement in stock-raising and horse-breeding. Rest assured we are ready to give preferential attention to the aims of your economic mission...
Chesterton. He is merely antiChristian, which requires less logic, courage or consistency than being an atheist. "They [the Wells type of thinkers] talk about believing in a purpose in things and then tell you they don't believe in a divine person in whom a purpose resides. I cannot imagine anything like a purpose wandering about the world without any person to belong...
...Great Gabbo (Sono-Art) As a ventriloquist in silk stockings and a dinner shirt, Erich von Stroheim keeps his round, bristle-covered head unbowed under bludgeonings written for him by Ben Hecht. He is in love with the girl who helps him in his act. Off stage he cannot tell her what he feels - something makes him abuse her and act mean, but in the act he throws his voice into the dummy and lets it express his love. The imagery giving power to this anecdote was certainly apparent to von Stroheim. He started out to act it stiffly...
...Does West Point training aid in developing successful Army officers, and what apart from technical knowledge and honesty, makes for success in that profession?" He meditated a moment, and then replied: "I see your point." And he agreed with me that while a good military school or staff college cannot guarantee the quantity production of Napoleons and Lees, it can and does produce competent officers of high professional spirit. I went on to say that even what he called "mere technical knowledge" goes a long way in forming successful character. It is basic for judgment; it enhances courage by dispelling...