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TIME'S quoted words are not, as readers will think, the sputtering of an English jingo, but are, marvelous to relate, the considered dictum of TIME . . . Come Fourth of July next, I'll be eagerly watching for its berating of cantankerous Patrick Henry, and other scurvy fellows...
...sort of hearty comedy that rolls 'em in the aisles, but a Deep Freeze mixture of the sardonic and the downright mean. Dead Man in the Silver Market* is ostensibly an autobiographical treatise on what happens to patriotic ardor when it becomes decadent and jingo. But it reads more like a sharp essay by a man who has no country to be patriotic about...
...Jingo! Aren't they foolish...
From there to jingo journalism was an easy step. To whip up U.S. sentiment against Spain, Hearst sent Reporter Richard Harding Davis and Artist Frederick Remington to Cuba to "document" Spanish atrocities. When the artist complained that there were no signs of strife and asked leave to return home, W.R. sent him a supremely cynical cable: PLEASE REMAIN. YOU FURNISH THE PICTURES AND I'LL FURNISH...
...book, written by Clem Wood and Jingo Carroll, while not up to the standards set by the score, is consistently competent as a vehicle and perfectly adapted to the cast. The plot--The New Deal a la Luce in sleepy Anygnay, S.A.--is sufficiently irrational to set off the sharpness of the lines themselves, and needs comparatively little further consideration...