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...speaking in a voice thickened and knotted with emotion, he told the company how deeply he regretted the aspersions which their honored guest, the novelist, had cast upon a stainless memory. He said that he did not believe that George Washington was immoral. . . . Down the length of the white cloth, angry heads nodded agreement. Nobody was looking at Mr. Hughes now. The men who sat on each side of him pretended each of them to engage his other neighbor in conversation. It was not that they differed with him in their scholastic findings; they were not familiar with the musty...
...Whole Cloth...
...reporter of the lone Washington paper* which carried this story made it up out of whole cloth. My adjusted service certificate was correctly made out and acknowledged from Iowa a year ago. There was no misspelling. No complaint was made to the Adjutant General. No employe of the Department was demoted as a result of any such error...
...must "use his vast store of knowledge on innumerable topics with amazing facility," and that he was, as advertised, "WISE, WHIMSICAL, EDUCATIONAL, HELPFUL," there were some who wondered whether his all-embracing wisdom did not permit him to detect the offense proffered to his personal dignity and to his cloth by the ill taste of that circus-barker advertisement...
...because it reminds them of their own mortality. Cherishing the memory of the dead one, they treat his clay with reverence although secretly detesting the stiff and putrefying souvenir left behind. If a corpse must lie in the same room with the quick, its face is covered with a cloth or dissembled with cosmetics. Newspapers have recognized this unwillingness to look up on cadavers, and it has been a journalistic tradition never to print pictures of those killed by violence except for purposes of identification, and then only after the photograph has been retouched. Instead of showing the actual body...