Word: deservedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The letters published in your last issue were the last word in blatant conceit. You begin by being rude and contradictory on the subject of Washington's religion; you go on, print a deserved letter of correction (about ships and whistles) because it contains a whining compliment ; then you...
The Garden of Eden. High were the hopes that carried first nighters to this imported mockery. The play had been a mad success in Germany; had been adapted for the local trade by facile A very Hopwood;* was reputedly risque (the cynic likes a bawdy joke as well as do...
When he left his college education behind him at Amherst, he married and became a minister. A little man with a juicy, passionate face, he charmed the women of every congregation before which he preached. Men, as a rule, did not like him. After a period of years he found...
Boy Scouts got the separate heading they deserved. Now appease them thoroughly by giving them a regular page. And, surely, 100 readers among so many would enjoy a regular page or two as a fashion department. Some of us would like at least a page in each issue for baseball...
I would feel silly to allow myself to be annoyed by the mutterings of a dolt like this, except for the fact that he reflects an odious and rather ill-deserved light on Germans in general (of whom I am not one). I have lived several years in European countries...