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Side of the Angels. Wadsworth imbued the Guardian with his own puckishness, his donnish verbosity, his love for the elegant phrase. The paper often exasperates other newsmen with its quill-pen essayist's approach to the day's hard news, is designed for those who lounge as they read. It often irritates politicians with toplofty editorials suggesting that the paper is not only on the side of the angels but right alongside them in heaven. Snorted Winston Churchill in 1950: "What a remarkable position of superiority...
...covered with medals (of what orders, he never cared), so up sprang the legend that if Dumas were spun round, further rows were revealed dangling from his back. He wrote with such rapidity that people refused to believe that he wrote at all-Dumas, they said, was just the pen name of a five-man syndicate. Dumas (who loved to out-legend his own legends) denied this. "My valet," he said, "used to write [my books] for me, but he now pretends that he is also capable of signing them with his own name, so of course...
During the years that followed, many a former German in the land of General Bolle came to prefer his benevolent rule to that of the fatherland. But great nations must follow their own great destinies regardless of personal preferences, and last week, with the scratch of a pen in Brussels, the kingdom of General Bolle was signed out of existence...
...taken up our pen with the intention of addressing some timely remarks to the Sophomores on the propriety of their spending their spare hours in writing for the CRIMSON, instead of wasting their time over baseball, rowing, etc., which, by the way, are all very well, as far as they furnish subjects for us to write on. But it has occurred to us that there was an able editorial on this subject in the CRIMSON for September 30, 1875, to which we refer members of the Sophomore class. --FROM THE CRIMSON OF OCTOBER...
...began in the mid-17th century with Sir Winston Churchill, a loyal colonel in the forces of Charles I, whose budding career was clipped off in 1649 as neatly as his sovereign's head. But with the agility of his 20th century namesake, he snatched up the pen as quickly as he dropped the sword, wrote Divi Britannici, a monarchical history of England. In its lament for the plight of the Cromwellian realm, one hears the first rumblings of the famed Churchillian rhetoric: "The two great luminaries of law and gospel were put out: such as could not write...