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Sirs: Your facility in answering (TIME, Sept. 19) H. A. Washington's query concerning the Communists' use of "pantywaist," prompts me to ask for similar information concerning another term that seems to have become a fad among political commentators, namely...
Though he thus flinches from the hurly-burly of modern life, Philosopher Joad is no pantywaist philosopher. Three years ago, when he witnessed the first firewalk performed in England (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935); newshawks asked him, as a well-known student of psychic phenomena, what he thought of the feat. Scholar Joad, taking a leaf from the book of George Bernard Shaw, who charges $1 a word for answering questions, said he could make no observations unless he was paid five guineas...
...tackle international problems, and Dr. Cherrington did, with endless lectures, seminars, model League of Nations assemblies, dinners and luncheons which after twelve years make visiting foreigners wonder why landlocked Denver is so world-minded. A few Denver intransigeants call Director Cherrington a Communist, but real Communists call him a "pantywaist." To Mr. Hull he was recommended by his able expositions of the Hull trade agreement program...