Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your historical ads make as good reading as your indispensable magazine. Recently I enjoyed the one entitled "The Merkle Incident." It was astonishingly complete and very well written, but surely it was mistaken in one important particular. You say, " 'Iron Man' McGinnity, coming on the run, seized the ball and hurled it into the stands. Tinker pinned his arms and the ball lobbed into the crowd already surging on the field...
Thanks−congratulations to TIME for saying "Now John drives the dark Lincoln limousine." To learn what make of car Mr. Coolidge used while President and to learn that he bought this car from Uncle Sam, is NEWS. Newspapers delete the name of the car because that would be advertising the car. It is good to know that TIME has the guts to print the NEWS, even if it is a blurb for the manufacturer. No thanks, I don't own a Lincoln−but I wish I did. So say...
Last week Baron Ebbisham. who as Sir George Rowland Blades was two years ago Lord Mayor of London, returned to London from a business trip to the U. S. and imparted to his countrymen some shrewd advice. "I want to say a word." he began, "against slavish copying of methods which may have produced prosperity in other lands. Take such experiments as American mass production methods or German cartelized [trust] control of entire industries. These may be only passing phases. At any rate remember that our traditional lines of development have little in common with those countries...
...speaking of the Lampoon, Hollister will say: "A recent issue of the Lampoon contained a very discourteous and, in fact, offensive article, burlesquing the splendid gift of a large sum of money from a Yale graduate to Harvard College, to be used in financing and making possible the College House plan. While your committee does not approve of having the college undergraduate publications censored by the college authorities, at the same time we feel that such publications should be more largely influenced by public opinion, not only as held and exerted by the Harvard undergraduates, but also by the graduates...
...Golds advise smoking Old Golds, eating sweets, enjoying both. Say Camels: "With a cigaret as good as Camels, the truth is enough...