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Once out of a thousand times, the crank has a story?and then he is not a crank...
Your letter page is a very, very human document. The authors of these letters form a sort of zoo of every kind of crank. I, too, am one of the cranks, my mania being your magazine. There is nothing so well worth reading as TIME except, of course, the Bible. You will, no doubt, receive some irate letters about the Hobby Horse Article in your Feb. 23 issue. Some will denounce you for over praising-President Coolidge, some for ridiculing him. My private opinion is that the writer of the article has shown unusual insight and justice in his sketch...
...thing expressed in the following letter, which was sent out last week to scores of reputable citizens in one of the larger cities of the country by a firm situate in one of the best streets: This is not front the Anti-Saloon League nor from a prohibition crank. It is from analysts who know their subjects...
...remark as early as 1907: "Would that we could do something, at once dignified and effective, to knock Mr. Bryan once for all into a cocked hat!" And the late learned and Democratic Walter Hines Page summed up his opinion of Mr. Bryan for Colonel House with the remark : "Crank once, crank always...
Motorists who drain good oil out of their crank cases...