Life — June 19, 1913 — page 40: what you’re looking at

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© pinnae nrtne Raggi a bbieeos The Protest of the Words ? MASS. meeting of words was ; . held in Cooper Union last evening. Everybody was present. es The purpose of the. meeting was to call attention to the abuse of words generally, Delegations from typo- graphical -centers crowded into the hall, until all the asterisks and the parentheses were lined up in the four . : | corners, The adjectives occupied: the Five Points Worth center of the room, and_a little back . ef of them. were the trite sayings. Si d: val Remembering: nites tc oles Monee "a Tes uagment f1ouse wall were: That caly the finest. il Us Down!" + by Chareate wine caters. . ve Us a Rest!” .SIR GILBERT PARKER MARTELL'S distilleries. and many other old favorites. - oe _A fat old exclamation point arose “An intense story, in which the That it is there distilled sand spoke for the adjectives. characters. ‘sein. ving “persons with utmost care by “My friends here,” he said, “are MARTELL & CO. terribly abused, not only by book re- rather than creatures of the au- themselves. This en- viewers, but by politicians and stump thor’s imagination.”—Pittsburgh Saal ae aay speakers generally. Is there no way “« p ‘ ay. to stop this frightful oppression? Post. “A novel of internation- Look at some of the specimens I have al excellence and importance.” That there are tens of brought in here this evening. Why, —Portland Oregonian. “Stands thousands of pencheons they can hardly hold their heads up ” : . developing and matur- from daily wear and tear!” out like a lighthouse amid a flood ing in MARTELL'S At this point the trite sayings of mediocre novels.”—Detroit stores. = started a hubbub, but were promptly “ P Y squelched by the chairman, who, being Free Press. “A masterful and That consequently z ~ a naturalized pronoun, stood for a majestic tale, which holds a reader MARTELL & CO. never (44 : great_many things, but seemed to gripped with the course of the have to bottle a Brandy know where to di the line. cntil it is perfectly fit The verb “to be” got the floor and story from the first page to the and ready for the mark JD) talked for half an hour, until he was last.”—Columbus Journal. “ ‘The it is to carry. | stopped by a couple of interrogation , . points, who wanted to know what it Judgment House’ easily ranks as That to call a Brandy was all about. one of the best of his brilliant better than MARTELL'S The following resolutions were novels, and as one of the greatest is an empty boast —to passed. 7 beat MARTELL’S for Resolved, that editorial writers be that has appeared in many Quality a frank impos- restricted in their use and abuse of months.”—San Jose Mercury. sibility. the members of this assembly, and that after-dinner speakers be limited oe to eighteen verbs, five nouns, ten ad- ILLUSTRATED, $1.35 NET ole Agents jectives, and a couple of pronouns for G. S. Nicholas & Co. ean a HARPER & BROTHERS New York “ Resolved, that we refuse to enter — — —— into any agreement with President : Wilson about the number of delegates we shall send to make up his next message. “ Resolved, that it is the sense of this meeting that we are the most abused company, everything consid- ered, in the history of the world.” At this point, just as the meeting was about to do something worth while, the whole proceedings were interrupted by a detail of periods, who came in and brought everything to a full stop. “Many are destined to reason wrong- ly; others not to reason at all; and others to persecute those who do reason."—Voltaire. MASteching SEVERING HIS CONNECTIONS comicbooks.com