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...told, the book is rather a mediocre feat for the celebrated scorner of average men, literary grace, Pulitzer Prizes. The flaying of E. Wesson Woodbury may spoil a great many people's summer vacations, but far more malice could have been wrought, and more sales made, if the ending had not been so tediously dragged out. After paddling far up the stream of U. S. literature, Mr. Lewis has idly turned his canoe and shot some unexciting rapids...
Amid so much pomp it was recalled that Baron von Richthofen had ever been a scorner of the conventional mediocrities of mankind. When he was shot down at last, he was found wearing a flaming suit of silk pajamas under his aviator's uniform. Said mourners: "His pajamas and his famous blood-red battle plane were typical of the man-a flaunting, brave, exuberant war eagle. His like has not often been seen...
...Faunce, D.D., president of Brown University, preached last night in Appleton Chapel. He chose for his text: "Surely He scorneth the scorner, but He giveth grace unto the lowly...
...these we may see certain characteristics of the scorner. First, he is inactive, he points out evil without moving to remedy it; second, he always looks down, he is by nature an unfavorable critic and pessimist. The man with these characteristics will find his place in the voting tomorrow or rather will fail to find his place and the indifference of his class will be the greatest danger. the Government will have to face; it. is the inactive lookers on who will keep the nation in trouble and perplexity...
...seat of the scornful." Any serious mind, the speaker said, would pray to be delivered from irreligion and immorality, but it is not apparent at once that contempt should be placed in the same category and on the same level with these evils. The sin of the scorner is, however, much more insidious, deceitful and benumbing than that of the ungodly man. To know the good and then to despise it, to yield to the contagion of irreverence, is the most hopeless of all sins. The choir sang anthems by Perceval and Barnby...