Word: kraut
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Where did this bolder picture of the Associated Press appear? Where but in that kraut-liveried castigator of every U. S. folly, real and imaginary; in the American Mercury. The leading article in that magazine's April issue, by City Editor Dewey M. Owens of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, must have caused pain to Kent Cooper, present A. P. manager, and his colleagues, especially since the American Mercury had published an article the month before, entitled "Think Stuff Not Wanted," which exposed an attitude of blatant flippancy toward foreign affairs in a news service called, for poisonous anonymity...
...dust-buried trays far downtown in Manhattan. He had studied "mauve decade" press-agentry and labored long to achieve restraint amid the many "priceless" opportunities that flew to mind. The Mercury's readers had nodded approval-but that was all, having come to expect the ultrasmart from that kraut-liveried lay pontiff. But the Mailbag saw, and through it, others. A few cheers went up for the masterpiece of the month in advertising...
...bullfighting fan; he therefore becomes the bullfighting President. Corpulent Premier Herriot, who is fond of a pipe, sought momentary relaxation in a Bohemian cafe where he was found eating sauerkraut-a happy augury for better Franco-German relations-and he therefore became "the corpulent, pipe-puffing, kraut-eating Premier of France...
...corpulent, pipe-puffing, kraut-eating Premier...
Students at Harvard printed a circular purporting to be issued by a "Society for the Reform of the Social Habits of Foreigners," and aimed especially at the consumption of Limberger cheese and sour-kraut. The circular fell into the hands of European journalists and was gravely and severely commented on by them. - [Harper's Weekly...