Word: dillington
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...unmitigated wallop off of such letters as the Alphabetical Englishman Dillington-Dowse - or whatever his name was -and the gentleman who entertains such supreme confidence in them all laying down sooner or later. May we not have more of such? A series of such letters compiled and issued under one cover might easily carry to posterity the same lessons as our generation may get from Plutarch's Lives. I maintain that this notion is not so farfetched...
Some of these Legionnaires will be running over to London for a week or two, and I would suggest now that they stop in and see if there is such a member of the London Author's Club as Mr. Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse who wrote you a letter of such foul criticism on the club stationery (TIME, June 13). My blood still boils when I remember his sneering reference to "The Yanks, a nation ... by no means of the first rank, who . . . found themselves in 1914-18 too proud to fight...
...TIME subscriber, whether or not a Legionnaire, do violence to Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse...
...HARRIET INGERSOLL Saint Paul, Minn. The border is red. But the red ink is printed over yellow. Exposure to much dampness or sun light would fade it orange. How to say where orange ends, where red begins ? -ED. "Dilly Dow" That the umbrageous name of Cyril H. D. G. Dillington-Dowse, who pays his vitriolic tribute to the illiteracy of TIME in your issue of June 12, does not appear to be a Who's Who in merrie England should not give you concern. Let me clear the mystery. It appears perfectly plain from the internal evidence...
...Correspondent Frank R. Kent.-ED *TIME did not strain after such far-fetched conceits as "inhaling strawberries" but declared: "The strawberries were eaten by Foreign Minister Briand of France. . . Soon ... a rash broke out on M. Briand. (TIME, July 4.)-ED. †Cyril H. D. Dillington-Dowse (TIME, June 13)-ED. *An error. Eight-point or brevier is used. On the Letter Page, six-point...