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Your periodical has my approval as evidenced by the enclosed card. Not one hundred percent, however. I doubt if the majority of your readers enjoy so constant an inversion of phrases or so much adjectival alliteration. Your weakest department is Sports. Presumably the purpose of such a style is humorous???but there are still those who enjoy the English language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 5, 1925 | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

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