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...exclusively Communist address; it was used, he said, by the organizers of a labor group. Another former TVAer described Remington as a half-baked young radical who affected old shoes tied together with strings and put-putted around Knoxville on a motorcycle. The portrait was of an earnest decrier of entrenched privilege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Two Pictures | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...slings and arrows at the ex-marine have been Heywood Broun, Louis Bromfield, Sinclair Lewis and H. L. Mencken. "One has only to contrast the interviews given by these two men, Dempsey and Tunney; one simple and profound, the other a mixture of bombast and cant," says one decrier of the literary note in Mr. Tunney's public statements. "A pugilist reading Hegel is about as appropriate as the dean of a woman's college singing. 'I'm Gonna Dance Wit' the Guy What Brung Me' says another. Unless he wishes to go down in history as the first champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TRADE OF HARD KNOCKS | 11/2/1927 | See Source »

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