Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Utter Caddishness Sirs: I read with surprise in your current number, which lies before me, in a footnote on page 18, a most uncalled for and venomous attack on the members of various London clubs which I note are carefully not mentioned by name. That the editor of a paper to which I have for some time subscribed should lower his magazine by allowing some member of his staff to vent his jealousy and malice on men, who, being unnamed, cannot defend themselves ... is inconceivable. If the writer of this paragraph is not a hypocrite, who is? Such sickening cant...
What confounded Justice was Mrs. Collins' new affidavit, to the effect that her "confession" was a document prepared for her by one John M. Timmons, a retired merchant, friend of Ben Bess. Timmons paid her $50, she said, for signing the document. She, illiterate, had not read it. She thought it just meant she forgave Ben Bess "for the wrong he had done her." Mrs. Collins, now threatened with perjury proceedings, maintained as at the original trial that Ben Bess raped...
After hearing Mrs. Collins, the grand jury sent Ben Bess back to jail "for safekeeping." His friend, Timmons, said that Mrs. Collins was lying again; said he had read the "confession" to Mrs. Collins in the presence...
Louis Eckstein is one of those extraordinary men who are able to associate themselves simultaneously and successfully with totally dissimilar enterprises. He publishes the Red Book; its staff regards him solely as an expert upon what the public likes to read. The men who help him with the Ravinia Park scheme never for a moment doubt that this is his principal interest in the world. Ever since 1913, when he started the concerts by engaging the Chicago Symphony for a summer, he has kept the programs of the Ravinia music. Now, when asked about the history of his Ravinia Park...
...continue to direct their shafts against our organization and others founded on the same principles. Ridicule is the weapon ... of a poor cause. They may continue to talk about Babbitry and scorn the Rotarian virtues but Rotary International will be known and honored long after Minnesota's much-read but not particularly distinguished expatriate has been found out as the shallow, superficial, overestimated literary cartoonist that...