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...that time I've felt like starting out on a crusade-a futile one, probably, for I must admit that the girls seemed to relish such examples of bawling calf oratory as (I quote impressionistically) : "that lovable, that noble, that fooo-oully maligned man, Warren G. Harding"; "the gloooorious wooomanhood of the State of Ahia"; etc., much, too much, etc. If, as Pastor Rudy praises, the Senator showed "unusual intellectual capacity as a mere boy," may I timidly wonder what unfortunate accident transmuted those "remarkable" brains into a mess of something that (if it were lady-like to call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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