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...Dear Sirs . . . My words 'uniformed asses,' 'Attila's horse,' 'official bandit' and others similar to that ... do not refer to Major Arsenio Ortiz but are intended for whomever shall be found guilty of the horrible deaths inflicted on citizens of Santiago de Cuba...
...pattern my rowing on English systems, but only refer to the trying difficulty experienced last year in displacing for a better man the captain of Oxford or Cambridge. You can not change a man after the race starts as you can in football. F.W.C. Foster...
...article. Said the court: "Even assuming that [the headline] is susceptible of the meaning that some pastor at Park Falls had been named in a larceny warrant, there is nothing in these headlines to identify the plaintiff as being such pastor. It is well settled that defamatory words must refer to some ascertained or ascertainable person and that that person must be the . . . plaintiff...
...issue of Feb. 23, p. 36, you refer to a forthcoming opera called Merry Mount. Mention is made of a witch-burning episode. The producers are able to make their characters do anything, I suppose, but, as far as I know, there have never been witch-burnings in this country. The idea of this form of execution probably received a great impetus from H. L. Mencken- he refers many times throughout his rather muscular prose to such affairs. As a matter of fact the form of execution was usually by hanging. If there is a case on record where...
...while he was in Chicago his head quarters were in a hotel room where he spent his time playing checkers with a policeman. He calls me loony. Did you ever see a shambling imbecile whose dis eased brain didn't defend its lunacy by snarling at others? To refer to him as a blubbering charlatan perhaps is charitable. Even a lunatic may not be charged with complete mental bankruptcy...