Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of Mr. Cohen's letter. Several perusals of it have yielded no basis for a conclusion, except that it is a specimen of "mud-slinging" and a poor one at that. The statements couched in magnificent sarcasm, are ridiculous in their gross exaggeration, and for that reason it is needless to stoop to refute any of them...
...doesn't look for reason in a parade, just as one doesn't look for rhyme in a campaign song. The seeker after truth who inquires here for that which above all things beareth away the victory must ask of the winds which far around with fragments of confetti and cottonballs strewed the streets...
...that the ghosts have walked and the witches ridden their broomsticks in fact, now that Hallowe'en has made its yearly visit and there remains no reason why the Georgian's pumpkin pies would be made of squash--there is nothing in sight to break the expanse of featureless days until Armistice Day, some twelve days hence. One of the best ways to start on this stretch is to attend Professor Kittredge's lecture on Chaucer at 10 o'clock in Sever 11 this morning. Professor Kittredge is one of the foremost authorities on this first of English poets...
...REASON-Philip Gibbs*-Doubleday Doran ($2.50). As usual, Author Gibbs is out to prove something-this time that a system of philosophy is bound to go on the rocks if it counts God out. There was no room for God in Hesketh's firm belief that some day man would live by Reason; there was no room for religion in the behaviorist upbringing he gave his carefree earthy children. But this omission does not necessarily account for the boy's morbid passion for his youthful stepmother (indeed every man in the book is in love with...
Helen Wills recently set the Los Angeles Tennis Club clucking and fussing. They invited her to play at their tournament and in expectation had "some lovely silver" engraved with her name. She refused to attend, as player or spectator. Reason: blisters on her feet, which her mother feared might cause osteomyelitis (inflammation of the bone...