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...seem that generalities have been dealt with at the expense of a detailed criticism, and that I have been unduly captious. The reason for this is the sincere disappointment felt that one of the best theatrical organizations in America could do no better with a play which has intrinsic qualities of dramatic strength and romance, if I may use the word. It seems only fair for the public to expect a polished and finished production under such circumstances. And, by the same token, it is most unfortunate for them to spend money and time on such a piece of intellectual...
...Hoover. The acreage-reduction scheme was belittled on the ground that a smaller crop at a higher price wo'uld not put more money in the planter's pocket, that a 100 acres of 60? wheat is the same as 50 acres of $1.20 wheat. A more captious, unfair cry was that Chairman Legge, onetime head of International Harvester Co., wanted to reduce U. S. farm production so foreign husbandmen could make big crops, buy more U. S. agricultural implements. Department of Commerce figures were adduced showing farm implement exports for the first six months of 1930 were...
...write a "Dear Editor" letter, to those who constantly write them, this cartoon by Webster seemed pat! In case you have not seen it (though as it is copied* from the New York World the chances are you have)-it seemed to me to fit so many of the captious readers you apparently have (and are not alone in this). Do most people read for the pleasure of being critical and not for the absorbing interest of the knowledge gained? From one who admires the magazine's style and learns much. MADALEN DINGLEY LEETCH...
...sturdy atmosphere of rugged amateurism. Absolutely no mention of financial award to the winner has been mentioned in the official announcements and one may as well assume that the participants will engage merely out of love for free competition and the clean hard joy of listening to Helen Kane. Captious persons may always point to the promoters of such schemes as the real profiteers, but it is to be hoped that no such stigma should be attached to a firm which has done so much for appreciation of music in and around Harvard Square...
...ordinary run of jokes fails to amuse. But this time he had gripped, he thought, a Constitutional jest, the cream of which would taste sour in the mouths of the Wets. All a-chuckle, he was not hesitant in sharing it with the world. Rhode Island had raised a captious question on the 18th Amendment's ratification. Senator Borah judicially pronounced it "utterly unsound" and then continued...