Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dislikes Red...
...please cancel my subscription to TIME on its expiration. I am disappointed in what promised to be a very entertaining and educational publication. I feel that your reference to notables is at times impertinent and your liberty with diction runs into excesses. I also do not like the red border and feel that I would much rather have the Literary Digest as it covers the subjects covered by TIME in a dignified manner and withal fills my wants...
...have heard from all the people to whom I send your magazine (would that all who received gifts could be prodded the same way), and they are very much pleased with the gift. They don't all like the whole magazine. One doesn't like the red outline on the cover, and another doesn't like the way you published certain details of the Chaplin case which the so-called "reputable newspapers" omitted, and the third thinks that you are all right. As for myself, my renewal in advance speaks for itself...
Whenever a discussion arises on the subject of yellow journalism, the Boston Transcript is cited as a clear bright light shining in a dark journalistic world made up of pink extras, tabloids, red headlines, and misleading leads. The Transcript, also, is the classic example among newspapers of the good old New England conservatism, the "safe" newspaper equally to be trusted when declaring that there is no summer playground that can hold a candle to New England or when leading the churchman afield...
...expressed the spirit of whimsey which must twinkle in story books. I did not find dear Kate Green-away as I had hoped, but I was gladdened by the sight of eighteenth-century villagers dashing round the Mulberry Bush portrayed by the happy fingers of G. Cox; and Red Riding-hood's thatched cottage; with the villainous wolf standing on the door-step, touched with an eerie grace by the pen of Louis Reynal. What could a child's paper be without dolls, and here to be sure is a page of cut-outs of Campus...