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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that such mawkish sentimentality and lack of knowledge as expressed in this editorial comment is of any value to the nation. These Negroes are of a type that are better off "never born." They stand as "nuisance criminals or feeble-minded paupers in the body-politic...
...Emanuel Swedenborg were Divinely inspired and are, in fact, the Word of God, constituting the Third Testament. The schism was in reality an adherence to the views held by the founders of the church, and from which the General Convention had departed. . . . One other item I cannot pass without comment, namely the claiming of Goethe, Wagner, Berlioz, Balzac, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Emerson, Thoreau, Victor Hugo, Helen, Henry James, Keller, Elbert Andrew Carnegie, Hubbard, Maeterlinck, Amelita Galli, Yeats, Curci and Eddie Guest as being "in formal or spiritual fellowship" with the New Church. All of the above and many more...
...cavalry in modern warfare, that in Prohibition days more game wardens than revenue agents were killed in the line of duty. Unlike So Red the Rose, which contained implicit and explicit criticisms of modern society, the tales in Feliciana are casual and fragmentary, contain only marginal sociological comment. Some times Stark Young seems little more than a leisurely collector of old Southern impressions, exhibiting dissociated bits of conversations, rare historical items, with the polite, after-dinner wit of one displaying trophies of a hunt. Always contrasting feverish urban affectations with the contented days and rich histories of small Southern...
White I cannot comment on the reaction of New Yorkers to his column, I will conscientiously state that the lucidity of his reactions and his analysis and understanding of human nature are superb. If he has a fondness for loud clothes, he also faithfully observes what is currently deemed to be good taste in dress and offers his readers many valuable suggestions...
...lacking "sweet femininity" but possessing "rugged strength, self-sufficiency and detached tolerance" (TIME, June 24). But Dr. Terman had no evidence that any of his rugged women were keeping their husbands in jail. The questionnaire which Mr. Anthony sent to jailing wives netted him -besides 109 blanks returned without comment, 29 vituperative letters and one communication threatening his person- 800 filled-out blanks which led him to state last week that 552 (69%) of the writers were maniacs suffering from psychoses bordering on sadism...