Word: lovelorning
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...represented. Arthur Brisbane's daily column, for instance, appears in more than 60 papers. The Hearst telegraphic news services are sold to hundreds of journals, as are his syndicated cartoon strips, the work of his large corps of professional humorists, his daily advice to the lovelorn, his serials for women...
Nevertheless, the bureau is able to give some timely tints to the lovelorn. Despite the admittedly "high cost of loving" it is nothing compared to the high coast of remaining single. By the simple process of taking a wife, a man may jump his exemption from $1,000 to $2,000 which virtually makes the ordinary citizen's income tax-free. Many a blushing June bride has been hustled to the alter in the middle of December to gain the $2,000 exemption for the entire year. Love as usual has found a way to surmount all obstacles...
...unfortunate editors to tell how this is done. Some of the cleverest of these journalists dig up an editorial of ten years back, change a stray "a" from a Stray "the" and call the "1924 Freshman Editorial". Others will out-Fairfax Beatrice in her advice to the lovelorn. However, all we have to say to this...
...about this man, I should have maintained my custom of refusing these highway requests at all times. As it was, I stopped to argue with him,") which are inconsistent with the general style and plot. But the piece breaks into splendid originality in two speeches of Tom Gowan, the lovelorn murderer, and in the conclusion, which is far better than either the sentimentalism of the one or the fatalism of the other of the two authors whom Mr. Gowdy is consciously or unconsciously imitating. Again, many of the purely descriptive passages contain figures which are unquestionably striking. But Mr. Gowdy...