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Brotherhood in the Bunk. In country inns he found the sheets blackened by previous travelers, and felt that brotherhood had been carried too far in the land of liberty when strangers were admitted to bunk with any guest during the night. He deplored the absence of curtains in bedroom windows, and the abundance of flies everywhere. As a bookseller and printer in Philadelphia, he contributed his bit to the future of U.S. civilization by selling contraceptives, which were soon "in great demand among Americans, in spite of the false shame so prevalent...
...Young Man's Fancy (by Harry Thurschwell & Alfred Golden; produced by Henry Adrian) treats of a summer camp for boys & girls - and particularly of four young ruffians who share a bunk with a rich man's coddled son. In its few bright moments, the play catches the addled essence of adolescence; but it keeps encoring each good bit until it turns into a bore. Worse still, A Young Man's Fancy combines a trite comedy plot with a cheap comedy trick. The little rich boy decides to play Master Fixit in a counselors' sagging romance...
Expand All Over. In four war years he earned $4 in salary working for the Government in a half-dozen top jobs. On one trip to England his ship was torpedoed off Iceland. Roused from his bunk, Taylor bobbed around the Atlantic in a lifeboat for six hours without his pants...
Fifteen minutes later, dressed and shaved, Corporal Monson was bucking the strong head wind on his way to the Company mess. In half an hour he was back in the squad room, policing up around his bunk, making the bed, straightening out his steel wall locker. At 7:35 there was a whistle again. Out for inspection poured Company F of the gist Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron: a scanty 54 enlisted men out of an authorized strength...
Gert's poems are bunk...