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...vagueness. It is all very well to claim that such a method enhances the desired mysticism or the exotic Indian atmosphere; but technical devices should not become obvious mannerisms, and the interpretation of some of the episodes almost baffles even the most careful reader. Mr. Weeks' store called "The Arrow-head" proceeds clearly and cleverly until the denouement is reached; then the mode of treatment is suddenly changed, and the final situation is suggested so dimly that the result is an anti-climax. The some difficulty appears in a less degree in "The Walloping Window Blind". In characterization, narrative skill...
...baldheaded. I am not quite baldheaded, but near enough to be sensitive. Also especially since I became a Socialist I am carefully about not wearing red neckties. I don't wear clerical collars or soft collars, and, sartorially, the dearest ambition of my life is to look like an Arrow Collar advertisement. Lately, however, I am looking longingly at the young men who advertise the House of Kuppenheimer...
With the help of the Lampoon's special number, Mr. Harold Laski should find himself more famous than Jesse and his movie stars this morning. Off-hard, we should say that Mr. Laski gets a snappy panning. The only thing in Lampy not derogatory of him is the Arrow collar ad. on the back page. And even that has a Red stripe running through...
Lampy surely is hard on Yale. From the prologue to the Arrow collar ad. on the back page, no quarter is given the Elis except in the sizes of the Arrow collars. It takes our own bi-weekly comic to roast Yale off the gridiron...
...dignified learning by showing to the whole country that a man of education, a man of letters, might nevertheless be a very good fellow, a delightful host, a crack companion in the mountains, a swift counsellor in public affairs, an administrator who went at his ends like an arrow to the quarry...