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...many beautiful female passengers, who continually entered and went out by a little gate at the back of the chamber. All those who thus took their ease were, however, allowed but little time for their dalliance, until each one of them should be called by name, when whoever amongst them it was had been summoned would make haste to reach the low, counter-like structure in the furthest recesses of the apartment. Here was conveyed to each, by the attendant, what must have been in the nature of a sentence, for each was perceived either to startle and grow pale...
...atmosphere in all his films. The author of "Up from Blooms bury" has an inherent gift that makes it not only believable but transparently natural that, for instance, an assassin who took some rather inaccurate pistol shots at him in the first part of the show, should later stand amongst an admiring crowd, reverently whispering "The king, the kind...
...past. If the past is distrusted, it is because the teachers have not enkindled it, and the students have not burst into flame. Discussing the university don in one of his aromatic essays, George Santayana says: "Yet dry learning and much chewing of the cud take the place amongst them of the two ways men have of really understanding the world--science, which explores it, and sound wit, which estimates humanly the value of science and of everything else." The educated man, whether he has been to college or not, comes ultimately to rely upon mother wit and his horse...
...order to obtain an idea of the musical interests of the members of the Choir and Glee Club, a questionnaire has been distributed amongst the members of these organizations, asking what music courses they are taking, what instruments they play, and with what degree of facility they play them, and if they have pianos, radios or phonographs in their rooms. Other questions ask what choral pieces they have benefited by and which pieces they have enjoyed the most...
Night before in a speech telephoned to the Pacific Coast and there broadcast, President Hoover had revealed his plans: ''The improved situation in the country affords me the deep satisfaction of coming home to vote, amongst my neighbors and friends. . . . I have never gone so far away nor remained so long, except during the great War and the Presidency, that the homing instinct has not carried me back every year to sink more deeply the roots of my being in the fertile soil of California's spiritual and cultural life. . . . When. sooner or later, the time arrives...