Word: sincerest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frothy imbecilities of his "You Know Me Al" stories, highbrow critics discovered in him a painstaking artist with a phonographic ear for U. S. folk speech, in his enameled tales a gentle contempt for the people he wrote about. To the late William Bolitho he was "the greatest and sincerest pessimist American literature has yet produced." An owl-eyed, saturnine man, given to one-word epigrams, he was once asked for his list of the ten most beautiful English words. His list: gangrene, flit, scram, mange, wretch, smoot, guzzle, McNaboe, blute, crene...
...Editor this letter is sent to you with the deepest and sincerest thanks for what you have said in behalf of the Bonus Army-the World War Veterans-there is a saying no one has ever returned from Heaven or Hell to tell us how either place is managed. The Heaven part I'll agree is true-but I'll debate with anyone "about no one ever returning from Hell" as I believe those who returned from (no mans land) and other war fronts of the World War really returned from Hell. And if those boys who were...
They do say that imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism so I know you will be very interested to receive the copy...
...mostly founded on trade relations between countries he may have sound foundation on which to build principles of action in his later career. Likewise he learns to be considerate of foreign customs and foreign ways and that it is not imitation, but tolerance combined with understanding that is the sincerest flattery...