Word: unkindnesses
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...Yellow Taxi has reached London! The Daily Mail, in an unkind editorial entitled Taxicabs from Chicago-500, All Yellow, said: "There has arrived in London from the United States a man who is seeking to launch on the already congested streets of London 500 Chicago-built taxicabs. He is Mr. Schultz of the company which makes the Yellow cabs that run in the streets of Chicago. Mr. Schultz is to be followed to this country by three specimens of Yellow cabs that from reasons of price offer a big inducement to British buyers...
Some years ago the Chicago Tribune made unkind remarks about Henry Ford, and the supermechanic sued the Tribune for libel. In the course of Mr. Ford's testimony at the trial Tribune lawyers found that he did not differentiate between Arnold Bennett and Benedict Arnold. But Mr. Ford won the suit and at his own request took six cents in damages...
Chancellor Cuno made a speech in the Reichstag. He said unkind things about the French. The Wilhelmstrasse had the speech translated into the principal foreign languages. German merchants abroad offered to distribute copies of the speech. Cases of Cuno speeches left Berlin bound for the outer world. They arrived at the frontier. The German customs officials sent them back to Berlin, because no export license had been issued. This is very necessary. Cuno had the law passed...
...plain boor for choosing such subjects, but, on the other hand, it is equally undeniable that Beerbohm intended no slight. He says in a letter to the Secretary of the Galleries : ". . . if the public is likely to read any shadow of seriousness into them, and accordingly regard them as unkind or disloyal, I think it will be well to avoid this misunderstanding by removing them...
...perpetual laudatory admiration is not a sign of true friendship. I have tried honestly, sincerely and frankly to see and to say what I thought to be excellent and also those points about which I should make reservations. You have seen in my "freedom of speech", therefore, no unkind intentions...