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Your correspondent, Mr. Copelin R. Day, in referring to Mr. Roosevelt's picture in TIME, Nov. 3, page 5, undoubtedly means the impression one gets at a first glance at the picture that Mr. Roosevelt is engaged in that most uncouth act of "making a nose" at someone. I am surprised that you yourselves did not get that impression at first. It was the first impression that I received when I first looked at the picture, and I had to look close before I realized that the first impression was false and that what Mr. Roosevelt was really doing...
Significant in modern American literature is the reappearance of the South to dispute with the uncouth West and the effete East the attentions of aspiring writers. Two recent works in different fields of literature which have won prizes in competition with hundreds of others, have both dealt, by singular coincidence, with the provincial picture-esqueness of Southern life. In "Hell-Bent Fer Heaven", the Pulitzer prize play for last year, Hatcher Hughes presented a light comedy in a remarkable setting among Southern mountaineers. In the November issue of "The Forum" is published that magazine's prize short story...
...poem by Arthur Gillman, The Revolt of the Alphabet, to be published in St. Nicholas. It was in the margins around this poem that the first Brownies capered and grimaced; after that the magazine rarely appeared without them. Remarkable creatures they were, about an inch high; their bodies were uncouth but agile ? spindle-shanked, with rotund small bellies; they had pendulous cheeks, tiny eyes and huge mouths, capable of infinite expression. They could wear any clothes with an odd look, but their noirmal garb was doublet and hose, worn with a tasseled cap peculiar to their order...
Remarkable creatures, uncouth but agile ? spindle-shanked, with rotund small bellies...
Long ago, in the fierce and uncouth days of 1920, there was a pen more scorching than other pens, and it was wielded by one of the ablest partisans of those contentious days. Whether it was because of the scorching pen or the ability of the partisan, or whether there were other causes at work, is no longer known nor was it then, but it befell that victory came to the side of the partisan with the scorching pen. On victory followed strange mutations. The partisan became a diplomat, a courtier. The mind that had formulated the deadliest slings...