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...fail to see why we should pamper these "reds" just because it is their skins that are red. Of course their forefathers owned our country. But it is the whole principle of our inheritance tax that it is wrong for children to inherit property beyond one or two generations. As long as that is so why are we so careful to give to these red Indians what our own white children cannot get? Let's have no more "reds" of any kind in our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...life and passion of the "Flower of France" are quite wonderful and divine enough in historic fact, without adding sugary heroics in order to pamper a public taste as cheap as dirt. The crime of her trial and death are in all belief bad enough without inventing impossibly fiendish detail and a demonaic bishop for villain. Incidentally, the authoress of "Joan the Woman" seemed to have been rather hard put to it to present a good group of Frenchmen as the soldiers of the Maid and an equally good group of Englishmen compelled by cruel History to be her murderers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 3/21/1917 | See Source »

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