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...spirit of criticism but for the sake of correctness, may I comment on your use of the word "catty-corner" in TIME of Nov. 14: "Sir James [Barrie] lives ... on London's Adelphi Terrace catty-corner from George Bernard Shaw's former home." The proper spelling is "eater-corner" or less properly "cata-corner." The word implies the numeral four as does the word "cater-cousin," fourth cousin
Well I don't see where your staff of intelligent editors have any liscense to knock an organization of the American Legion's worthy cause. Answer me through the columns of the press. How many of you cake eaters have ever shouldered a rifle or ever will be of any benefit to the government? The only education that the colleges give a man today after he goes out into the world to make a living is a fair knowledge of jerking sodas at the large sum of $12 per week providing he be an exceptional good mechanic. If you bunch...
...Examples flow from any physician's experience. Overweight?the man of 40 getting a fat body and a fat head, who avows himself a small eater yet is clogged with his own metabolic products; the man becoming set about the neck and waist, who turns his body slowly rather than his head and eyes quickly, or who is bluish and breathless, losing his rib movements and wants to 'stay put.' Then the various gastrointestinal victims who need to be taught how to eat. how to digest, and to regulate their bowels, and perhaps to be cured of their 'conscious abdomens...
...most interesting volume on show is DeQuincy's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", with lithographs by Zenya Gray which catch the atmosphere of the book extremely well. Other volumes represented are Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", grotesquely illustrated by Alexander King; "The Travels of Baron Munchausen", combined with illustrations by John Held; "Jaunts and Jollities by Mr. John Jorrick's", produced by the Merrymount Press; and De La Monte's "Undine" with woodcuts by Allen Lewis...
...Farmer Theunis Botha, cousin of the late great Boer General Louis Botha (1862-1919). Manna, as reported by the careful author of Exodus 16:31 tastes "like wafers made with honey." It is an excretion of the plant louse coccid (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927). Its effect upon the eater is mildly cathartic...