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This vast gallonage obviously cannot be consumed by any small group of connoisseurs. It must have a mass market. This fact does not lessen pungent little Harry Caddow's contempt for those who still disdain California for French wine. He does not like to think about cosmopolites who know the best French vintage years and can afford to buy chateau-bottled wines. Recently he exclaimed: "It makes the skin roll up your back like a window shade...
Professor Haring's article on Revolution in Brazil might well be taken as a model by student practitioners in this journal. It manages to be interesting without resorting to the attempts at pungent journalism which are too frequently accepted by the students as necessary to acceptable prose...
Last Sunday, rain pelted Manhattan but in St. Nicholas Cathedral, for the first time in months, Russians stood snug and dry as Most Rev. Nicholas Kedroff, their Archbishop, officiated at a service celebrating the Cathedral's 35th birthday.* Pungent incense swirled, Russian prelates' vestments gleamed in the candlelight during the long service in which Archbishop Kedroff, whose 35th birthday it was also, preached to his flock in Russian and English...
...FOOTING. DENNY MOSCOW CORRESPONDENT SINCE 1934; DURANTY 1921 TO 1934, LATER PINCH-HITTING WHEN DENNY ABSENT, EYE-WITNESSING, VACATIONING, FRONT PAGING. TIME'S OPINION DENNY "CAREFUL, FRANK." COLUMNIST BROUN'S OPINION DURANTY "EDITORIALIGHT DISGUISED AS NEWS-HAWK." DURANTY OPINION DURANTY "FACTSEEKER BEHIND FACTS." DURANTY OPINION TIME "ACE PUNGENT NEWS-PEPPER, NOW ACCUSED RE-MISSWARD SALT OF TRUTH...
Died. Edgar Watson ("Ed") Howe, 84, eternally disgruntled Kansas editor; of old age and paralysis; in Atchison, Kans. Since he started the Atchison Globe in 1877, Editor Howe framed catchy, pungent aphorisms about those world figures and affairs that did not conform to his Middle Western philosophy of industry, honesty, temperance and thrift; became the kindly, grouchy "Sage of Potato Hill." In 1911 he sold the Globe to his staff, continued to champion the cause of the common people through the unique E. W. Howe's Monthly...