Word: humbugged
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Where do you get the idea that your readers want to be plastered with a lot of humbug about Coolidge? . . . That weekly babble you hand out is disgusting. I would not give ten cents in ten years to read about Coolidge much less ten cents a week...
Sirs: Thank you very much for publishing my letter of recent date in your "worthy" magazine. I consider it a great compliment, but would appreciate your reply as to your reason for labeling it as "Humbug" and for leaving out passages which I considered essential toward bringing out my point. My opinions are always subject to correction, and if there is any suggestion you have to offer as to why they are faulty, I shall be very grateful to you. Can you furnish any sound reason as to why I should embrace a deity which offers no evidence of existence...
...Humbug...
...only solution is that your magazine, like most of the others, caters to the wants of the masses. The American people enjoy humbug, and you serve them their favorite dish, instead of opening their minds to the better and truer things of life. I cannot see why the article "Men and Apes" [TIME, June 28] might not have been presented just as effectively had you left out the reference to "Atheist Smith...
...publish too many one and two sided expressions on humbug issues...