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Percy Hammond: "Scientifically, The Outsider is, as Mr. Dempsey would say, 'the bunk.' . . . But Mr. Atwill is gorgeous as the quack-doctor; and Miss Cornell's realization of the passionate lame girl seems a perfect thing. I suspect she knows more about honest acting than any of the other actors of today...
...There is so much bunk in the papers nowadays that I don't bother to read much if it," said Coach R. T. Fisher '12 to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday in connection with the craze for "All--" football teams which has flooded the press of the country. "A newspaper football expert sees perhaps nine or ten games in a season, gets what information he can from press accounts and from hearsay, and then blossoms out with an All-American, All-Eastern, or All-Something-or-other team. His story makes interesting reading. The public eats it up and calls...
Correspondents were in accord as to the new Senator's dialect. He said for himself: "I ain't ignorant and a lot of this stuff that you read in the papers making me say things I didn't is all bunk. ... I didn't say that I didn't give a dam about books. I mean, I didn't say it that way. Some books ain't worth readin' and some are. I ain't got much time for 'em, but I would read 'em if I had time to read 'em.'' As for his favorite author, he declared...
...History Is Bunk." Mr. Henry Ford's remark of four year's ago about history has been duplicated this year by a remark about the Bible. In his John Burroughs' Talks, Chapter 20, Clifton Johnson reports the great naturalist as follows: "One day I was telling him (Ford) what a great book I thought the Bible was ?what noble literature; and he said: ' I haven't read it much, but I tell you what I think?Emerson's books and Thoreau's and yours (Burroughs') will be read after the Bible is forgotten.' " If Mr. Ford knew more history...
...Thomas, "Theatre Tsar," asserted in a communication to The New York Times, that 99% of the enthusiasm lavished on the Moscow Art Theatre was "pure bunk...