Word: asperine
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...rigors of Radcliffe long enough to see Benavente's "School for Princesses". For I rather liked the way it was done. Of course the heroine's continual pegieggedness was a trifle diverting for one who wished to concentrate on her regality. And the court gallant, the Duke of Asperin or Whatnot, might have done a little less bubbling about and made a few of his words intelligible. Yet those are the things which give amateur dramatics these Piquancy. I liked the play and the close of the second act was really theatrical. Though how the audience could laugh at some...
...Head are a frightful handicap to columns and courses. But really one just has to have one. It's being done. Colds and moral turpitude are quite the thing, positively the dernier cri. So this column must suffer--from a Cold-in-the-Head. That and the asperin which goes with it. Funny thing, asperin. Asperin plus Irene Bordoni makes "Mmmmm--Do I Love you?" rob the brain of any efficiency what so ever. But probably some one will think this is polyphonic prose or a time table and get something out of it, so after all what...
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