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...since 1900. They recall the prudery of the early 1900s, which "labored with a quiet stubbornness to restrict every character in magazine fiction to possessing, corporeally, just hands, feet, and a face." In 1915 they record that Sinclair Lowis, then reading for Doran Co., rejected "The Cream of the Jest", "because the general public simply cannot be induced to buy novels about unattractive and ignoble people." They comment in passing upon the era of the twenties, when "we writing persons, upon both sides, fought out, in our books, our magazines, and our newspapers, a fine, rough-and-tumble game which...
...Reason. Although Santayana himself had declared that he was no poet, comparing himself to Don Quixote, the Spanish-American War aroused him to "the Dionysiac frenzy and impassioned tenderness" that he considered essential for true poetry. When the Spanish Fleet at Santiago was destroyed; Admiral Sampson made the "boorish jest" of calling the victory a Fourth of July present to the U. S. people. Santayana wrote Spain in America as an answer. The poem is a lament for Spain's "sadness and dishonor," a moving and eloquent cry for a marriage of the two cultures, the spirits...
Europe's "honest broker," French Premier Pierre Laval, achieved one of the outstanding triumphs of post-War diplomacy last week, and a Gallic jest. After enjoying a repast in one of Paris' best restaurants and paying like the very devil for it, with 10% "for service" on top, M. Laval was approached by the fawning Patron who murmured, "Perhaps M. le Président would pen a precious thought in our Golden Book...
...mind when she feels like it is spunky old Nadezhda Krupskaya, the Widow of Lenin. Several years ago she vexed the Dictator by demanding that Soviet schools be opened to every Russian child, even the moppets of onetime Tsarists, priests, capitalists and kulaks. According to a popular Soviet jest about Stalin, he roared: "Tell that old woman that if she doesn't shut up and mind her business, I'll appoint a new Widow of Lenin...
...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace it was a grim jest. If ten tons of dust to the square mile goes scooting across the country in a March gale, what may not happen in July? Mr. Wallace decided that the danger of drought was greater than the danger of surplus. He issued an order: Farmers who had pledged themselves to reduce their 1935 Spring wheat planting 10% below normal were relieved of their pledge. More important, he ordered that some $30,000,000 which AAA had contracted to pay Spring wheat growers for reducing their acreage should still be paid, whether...