Word: canting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secrets. A slender, partly bald little man with a bristling mus- tache, last week carried a mass of official-looking documents to a va- cant lot in Denver, tore the papers to tatters, heaped them high, squirted them with kerosene, touched off a match and cried out over the flames: "Do you think I want homes in Denver ruined? . . . All you poor girls, you troubled women, who have given me your confidence that I might help you, rest now in peace. Your secrets are safe...
Your opening paragraph under RELIGION is a gem this week (July 11). No denominational paper dares do what you do under that heading: tell all the truth. I wish you could double or treble the amount of space you give. Hypocrisy, cant, superstition are timid of facts. There is no fear for faith in truth...
...candor, its freedom from cant, and its breezy versatility are all most refreshing and I should always recommend it without reserve...
...Paris, after several years in London, lives a thin-bearded, long, supple blade of a man, middle-ag-ing but of feverish vitality, whom "the foremost English novelist" (Ford Madox Ford) calls "the greatest living poet." This is not cant between members of a mutual adulation society. Many an-other able artist pays homage to Novelist Ford's bearded friend. They consult him about their pictures, statues, books, love affairs. They are not dazzled by his often eccentric habits and raiment, seeing within him a spirit like a flame blown in the wind. He is a genuine "original...
...present, is directly contrary to the demands of the body," started Dr. Alfred Worcester '78, Professor of Hygiene, in an interview yesterday. "Fortunately, the Freshman class is provided with as wholesome a diet as possible in the dormitory dining-halls, but that only takes care of a small per cant of the student body...