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Because his army is too famished and ill-equipped to fight the Irish, Essex returns to England against the Queen's express command. It is a characteristic, headstrong action; she slaps his face. To no avail does he protest his former braveries and services; the Queen scourges him with words. Outraged, he attempts to lead the people of London in revolt, is arrested, tried, sentenced to the block...
...find place for only twelve in the town jail. These were released by friends with pickaxes and crowbars. While the rest were being piled into a truck to be locked up in another town, their cronies fought with the constabulary. Addressed by the President of the College to no avail, the rioting continued until state troopers and tear gas bombs dispersed the rebels...
...Paris the bride conceives a great love for her husband, whereas he gives every indication of still preferring the girl who has jilted him. They play together in Paris and continue in the suburbs of Manhattan. Hope Williams, as the distraught bride, pleads for her husband's love without avail. Then she recalls something her father, a wise old expatriate, had said in Paris: "Love is a compromise in which people sometimes lose grace." This stimulates her to assert her individuality, eliminate the pleading, and thus regain her spouse's devotion...
...University as a vast hive of little brain cells has of course great value as an antidote for the football, pleasure and leisure mad undergraduate. Before many the academic muse can only gape, sigh, and pass on. For these even the shining example of France is of no avail. All that is left to those who scorn the battle of the books is the "paradise of the shirker and the drifter". An examination, of this paradise would be interesting. To the casual observer it might well be summarized by a rough sketch depicting Don Juan in a raccoon skin coat...
...willing to make sufficient concessions to effect any material changes. The College Entrance Examination Board is working on its angle of the situation in trying to make their tests cram-proof, but until it works in cooperation with the preparatory schools and colleges its efforts will be of little avail...