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...sometimes happens that one cat will sift through the cordon of stagehands to blink before footlights. When stage hands permit two cats to go astray in such embarrassment, the audience may well consider the production a casual...
Subscriber Smith's point is well taken, but how to blink the fact that Elmer Gantry is of "outstanding interest for TIME readers," which is what THE CREAM seeks to include together with first-rate and consequential books? From the newsmagazine viewpoint events are "good" in proportion, not to their moral or aesthetic content, but their prominence in the contemporary scene...
Gotham Silk Hosiery - bright needles, madly darting, blink at silk threads; tubes of stockings come out of machines-profits...
...picture we paint is not confined to this college. It is the shameful shadow that is being cast by the entire American educational system of today. Jazzed up oultures. Dollars and cents. Dollars and cents. To the dust blink with literature and the arts unless they can be turned to the profitable channels of scenario writing or short story work. Are you willing to be students of the name? Thinkers that do not fainter beneath the condemnation of the sleepy, mind-covered heard that grunts and ambles its way down the ruts to oblivion?" Mlcatgan State "Green Onion...
...country roads. Into their hills they scuttled and out again, back and forth to the bookstore, the stadium, the lecture hall, the soda fountain, the library, the bootlegger's, the chapel. (I ¶ At Yale University, not as many entered Battell Chapel as formerly in the drowsy, blink-eyed crack of dawn (8 a. m.). Unmoved by years of protest against enforced religious observance, but compelled by the physical limitations of their spiritual edifice, the Yale authorities had decreed that only freshmen would be required to attend daily services hereafter. The three upper classes would alternate their weekdays...