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These two assertions do not pardon the paper which spreads divorce in three inch headlines, savors the front page with a murder, and polishes off the whole with a hero story of bandits beaten off. Such news helps no one save the scandal monger...
...wishing for what you cannot supply. I am wishing for a current News Sheet which will give me the news, briefly, concisely and tersely, without confusing comments. But, speaking in the language of the man who stood looking at a giraffe: 'Thur ain't no sich animal.' " "Pardon me," said the efficient young clerk, "but there is?here it is," and he handed me TIME. I returned to the cottage veranda and although Bishop Brent was valiantly extolling the League of Na- tions in the nearby Amphitheatre, I read that copy of TIME from the upper left hand corner...
Brothers, pardon my emotion, and if I have kept you already too long, pardon me this also. On such an occasion as this, but few words can be spoken, but those must be spoken, for they are the outbursts of grieved spirits and sad hearts. What remains for me to say is short and in the words of a well known poem...
Whereas the melodramatic rapidly of the picture is forgivable, we cannot possibly pardon Mr. Griffith for those idle moments of sentimentality when he tried to make up for all the nasty things he thought about Abraham Lincoln during the making of "The Birth of a Nation." Not that we are against sentiment as a general rule--oh, dear no--but this was almost maudlin...
...England I used to ride in Rotten Row, Hyde Park, every morning at 8:30. One morning a lady on horseback dashed up against my horse and knocked my foot from the stirrup. I sent an aide after her to make inquiries. She came back blushing and asked my pardon. That evening King Edward said to me: 'So you met Miss Tennant in Rotten Row after all. She made a bet last night that she would introduce herself...