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Show Exaggeration. Jerolomon C. Woodford, a textile expert, was talking about the giant chemical trust just formed in Germany. Ger-many. "Trusts don't do the harm," he said, "that they are popularly supposed to do. There's a lot of ridiculous exaggeration exag-geration in this trust octopus talk. It reminds one of the girl on the sea voyage voy-age who wrote: "'That (hiy a frightful tempest burst upon us, but I resolved to stay on deck, even though the wind Increased to such a terrible hurricane that it was only with the greatest difficulty I could keep up my parasol.' " |