Word: guiterman
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citizen who can't be trusted-according to the investigators ... I am prompted to quote Poet Arthur Guiterman: Providence, that watches over children, drunks and fools, With silent miracles and other esoterica, Continue to suspend the ordinary rules, And take care of the United States of America...
...ARTHUR GUITERMAN...
...sentiments aptly rhymed and said, TIME's thanks to Poet Guiterman...
Luckily for his book, Guiterman doesn't make many such plunges. He writes almost exclusively to offer reassurance (and sometimes succeeds in conveying it) that in a world in which Romans rhymes with abdomens, there must be room for play...
...Guiterman belongs with the kind of humorists who make things funny, Thomas Temple Hoyne with those who find them so. Hoyne's "things" are not a stack of private slants on life, but the common denominators of American living, about which he knows plenty. A fourth-generation Chicagoan, Hoyne has followed the ropes as sports editor, financial editor, city editor, showman, broker, lawyer, Kentucky colonel. On Pilgrimage, his crudely but aptly illustrated book of verses, is as amateurish in its format and some of its contents as a home-made dog house. Within it lives a spirit that...