Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Aug. 22]. Imagine philosophical William James parading the streets to pervert justice for a Bolshevist fishmonger and a Bolshevist ditchdigger, both of them murderers, both of them anarchists ! Imagine gentle Henry James, that master of manners and nicety, bawling out disorderly epithets at policemen, judges and governors! I say it is a sin against a fine tradition for newspapers and for TIME to harp on the fact that this rowdy roisterer, this half-baked "intellectual," this "radical nephew," Edward James, is related to his uncles. To decent Boston he seems more like a descendant of that other villain, Jesse...
...whistle, clock or bell, Nor weak-eyed prisoner of wall and street. . . . Let me be easy on the man that's down; Let me be square and generous with all. I'm careless sometimes. Lord, when I'm in town, But never let 'em say I'm mean or small! . . . Just keep an eye on all that's done and said And right me, sometimes, when I turn aside, And guide me on the long, dim trail ahead That stretches upward toward the great divide...
...friendliness, Mr. Farrar gained, among more just thanks, a reputation for "undue optimism." Said Mr. Farrar in his farewell: "Think of all the adjectives I can now employ! Where I have been accustomed to using 'great,' 'magnificent,' 'heart-rending,' I can now say 'bunk,' 'babbittry,' 'balderdash...
Heywood Broun, most liberal of colyumists, and the World, most liberal Manhattan English-speaking daily, fell out. Mr. Broun wrote two vivid attacks on the Sacco & Vanzetti prosecution. The World printed them.* The World then advised Mr. Broun (casually, he says: pointedly, they say) to write about something else. He wrote two more pieces about Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti. The World refused them print. Readers asked why. Ralph Pulitzer, son of the late Joseph Pulitzer through whose genius the World grew famed, signed a statement. He caused the statement to be published at the top of the space daily allotted...
Similarly in his essays, Alfred Noyes, commentator, says nicely what he has to say but what he has to say has almost all been said. For this reason he is a most serviceable person. He wraps up the commonplace with loving care and presents it with an expression combining sturdy faith and "lest we forget" to people who only get confused when they read "clever" writers. How truly useful this ingenuousness is can be estimated almost mathematically. The "American Impressions" in his new book* were written for the London Times. To U. S. readers it will seem that Mr. Noyes...