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...much of Dr. Collins' pungent, cutting talk is the sheer tripe of a loquacious boudoir professional? How well does this exceedingly articulate if not glib man of the big-city clinic know the average human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: The Looking Doctor | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...Tripe--though I have never taken a course in the subject and hence have no valid right to an opinion--tripe is not fish. Yet the mere fact that it is not fish affects me but little. I guess I must belong in Anatole France's category of those who "fool themselves to live". For I see no particular reason to be absolutely clear about the what and why of a thing like tripe. Be it fish, fowl, beast or bug it smells the same--cooking...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/21/1926 | See Source »

...America--the best answer is silence, since this is not a question and answer column nor is it inspired by the deft delightfulness of syndication. But I have lost "The Polyglots". It may be too much like "Men Prefer Blondes" to appeal to those who say that be tripe fish or few! the "New Yorker" is tripe, but I insist that it is worth reading, especially at mid-years when life is not half so gay and careless as the last lectures of most Perfervid Professors might lead one to believe...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/21/1926 | See Source »

...cannot understand why you, or any publisher, should think the whole of the public morons or asses when you spring such stuff. I am an even-tempered man, but, by God, when I read such tripe, I swear a blue streak and kick my favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1925 | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...jacket is quoted the following by a well known critic. "The most significant figure in English letters today probably one of the most important in the entire range of literature". This is pure tripe and Mr. Lawrence should not be made sport of in such a crass manne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF REVIEWS | 11/11/1922 | See Source »

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