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...Left-wing critics thought they spied a little black Fascist in his wordy woodpile. As if to confound their politics, in Break the Heart's Anger Poet Engle has taken care to announce his revolutionary sympathies. And from various European vantage-points (almost every poem has a different postmark) he hurls rude remarks toward his native land. He calls the Statue of Liberty "you skirt," Manhattan "you great water fowl.'' He has words of measured praise for Karl Marx, though he qualifies them somewhat by adding that Marx was "no economist, neither philosopher." The D.A.R. will...
...letter to his son is accompanied by an envelope adressed: "Robert T. Lincoln, Cambridge, Mass," boating the postmark "Washington, D. C.-Free" and the signature "A Lincoln" in the corner...
...which is a post office. The hamlet's time of fame is Christmas, when to it comes all the childish mail addressed to Santa Claus. Also several thousand persons ship its postmaster their Christmas cards and merchandise with the request that he remail them under the Santa Claus postmark. All this is a lot of bother and expense to the deficit-developing Post Office Department in Washington...
...inquisitive Sears, Roebuck statistical department has traced back postmark dates, discovered more Honor Bilt homes are ordered on sunny days than gloomy. Typical names of stock homes are: Berwyn, Columbine, Fairy Homewood, Jewell, Puritan, Solace, Sunlight...
...does not "Denny" honor us and his school by mentioning its name in his letter ? You doubtlessly have "spotted" his school by looking at the postmark on his letter. Perhaps he was wise enough to write during vacation...