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...dismiss the Jewish composers with "But Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss, Tschaikowsky, etc., etc., vere Gentiles." Your entire attitude is nothing short of insulting to the intelligence of your readers. It is 100% befitting vacuocaputs. Do you think for a moment you can get away with that "etc., etc.,"? Must you confess you were stumped, or were you too lazy to look up any more Gentile names? Whichever it was, the "etc., etc.," was very derogatory and left the impression of, "Why bother to mention any more Gentiles? There are ever so many brilliant millions of Gentile composers," as you doubtlessly intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Pitcher, Butch Burnham: Catcher Roar of the Crowd Brigham: first base, Powell: second base, Nicholas: short stop, Keeu; third base, Lee: right field, Who Stole the People's Money Rockenberg; center field, Captain Tough Customer Stevens; left field, Cy and I Confess Sloane: Substitutes, Graves, Boston, Bean, Broad, Parsons: water boy and bad boy mascot, chairman of the Tiger, Price Day. Daily Princetonian

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princetonian Holds First Workout for Saturday's Tilt With Crimson--Optimism Reigns High Among Tiger Stars | 5/9/1928 | See Source »

...Alma Petty Gatlin went to the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, in Reidsville, N. C., to confess her sins. She told him that she had killed her father and was sorry. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue accepted her confession and told the police. Mrs. Petty was tried for murdering her father; despite Thomas Pardue's testimony, which was admitted, the jury found Mrs. Petty not guilty. That was two weeks ago (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Squealer | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...there were one redeeming feature, if would be pleasant enough to say that here is a moderately entertaining, musical play. But in honesty one must confess that even this one consolation is absent. The costumes are colorful, but that in itself goes but a short way; the music is innocuous, and only one tune, "Play Gypsics", at all demands attention. It has been and gone in popular fancy having had its hey-day a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/7/1928 | See Source »

...course not. . . . No, this miner you quote may not have been actuated by the highest principles, but in the light of the four gospels, I confess, he's not so far wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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