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Cited by Laborite Ponsonby as an instance of "unofficial propaganda" is the deed of Miss Kate Hume of Dumfries, Scotland. In 1914 she forged and gave to the British press a purported letter from her sister, Miss Grace Hume, in which the latter was supposed to write that her right breast had been hacked off by Germans in Belgium. Since Miss Grace Hume had never been out of England and was sensitive about her breast, she denounced her sister, but not until the story had grown to national prominence...
...above are jokes. They were printed in Life Jan. 4, the first issue under the editorship of Norman Hume Anthony (TIME, Jan. 7). They were apparently considered extraordinary jokes, for Editor Anthony reprinted them word for word in Life...
...time, it would seem, the publishers of Life have been getting most of their fun out of reading the brisk, bright pages of their foolish contemporary and lifelong rival, Judge. Life itself didn't seem half so funny as it ought to be. So eventually they beguiled Norman Hume Anthony, editor of Judge, to come over and take Sherwood's place...
...David Hume and Scepticism," Professor Eaton, Emerson...
...David Hume and Scepticism," Professor Eaton, Emerson...