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Sirs: By applying such a word as "cowardly" to the expression of an opinion by Mr. Shaw you merely make yourselves and your publication ridiculous and affect him no more than a cur in the gutter snapping at a passing mastiff. I have long since ceased to buy your so-called "magazine," but from the copies I see now and then in libraries and elsewhere I gather that a cheaply-sensational attitude is its present pose. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant...
With tenderest charity and gallant condescension, The Spectator has just raised up U. S. females from the gutter of spoilage thus...
...While they dawdled the crook returned, drew a knife on the carpenter. Though old, the Hamburger was still potent. Seizing the crook's slender wrist he wrenched away the knife; seizing his coat collar and seat of trousers he hurled him sprawling into a Kurfürsten-Damm gutter, returned to Gretchen. Half an hour later some 30 taxis teeming with tuxedoed crooks drew up outside the Hamburger convention. Though the Journeymen flung chairs, mightfully defending themselves, the crooks opened with Mauser pistols, shot one Hamburger dead, wounded seven...
...past. Curb commissioners and agents of betting brokers have vowed that his activities will not continue. For three years, the gallant Forecast has battled grimly against the odds opposing him. His public has not gone unadvised. More than once he has been assisted from a Boston or Chelsea gutter bearing the marks of conflict. A week later his predictions have amazed gridiron thousands. There's no stopping...
...without subtitles. A pool of limpid water is transformed into a mechanistic ripple like the swift succession of a hundred thousand railroad ties. A train shoots out of the country and into BERLIN in hard, square letters. It is 5 a. m. A sheet of newspaper flutters in the gutter of an empty street. A cat creeps across the sidewalk. On another street a man tacks up a sign. Four revelers waddle home, one of them dragging a balloon. Shutters go up. A factory gate rolls open. The tempo increases. People thicken the streets and the subways...