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...Recently they bought big advertising space in other papers to boast of their letters-to-the-editor department which is conducted personally by Editor Julian Starkweather Mason. Proudly they cited the "spicy," "frank," "virile," "nonchalant," headlines which Editor Mason prints over letters with which he does not agree. Samples: "Rot!", "We Think the Precise Opposite," "Another County Heard From," "What Can This Impertinent Fellow Mean...
...Germany . . . by a larger fleet . . . will bring the British to their senses through sheer fright! . . . England! Uncle! A most charming fellow, this King Edward VII! Ineffable cheek! Pharisee! Rot! Twaddle! Bunkum! Hurrah, we've caught the English scoundrels out this time...
According to irate members of the R. A. O. B. the enormous pile of flowers on the common grave of the 50 dead at Cardington was allowed to remain there and rot for months, tributes from 5,000 R. A. O. B.'s being involved...
...starts business with assets of some $60.000,000. with 3,500 employes and an annual payroll of over $6.500.000. Redwood is a soft, workable wood much like cedar and cypress. It has no resin or pitch, burns slowly, hence is favored by homebuilders. It is hardy, will neither rot nor warp. In addition to sales to U. S. consumers, the new company will push exports, especially to tropical countries. For, unlike most lumber, redwood is not relished by white ants...
...foulness! This man cracks bad jokes with a chisel!" An interpreter: "It is supposed to illustrate a passage from the Book of Revelations how a woman 'clothed with the sun and with the moon under her feet . . . appeared in Heaven . . . and being with child, cried.' " Sculptor Epstein: "Rot. My Genesis is not based on any passage in the Bible." Commented the thoughtful Observer: "If an explorer were to discover Mr. Epstein's Genesis in an African jungle tomorrow, he would stand before it in respectful wonder. But when the same man discovers it instead at the Leicester...