Word: callowness
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...lost the manuscript of her play, was too busy to bother about it. Thirteen years later she found it again, among some old papers. Easily most popular poetess of the U. S., Edna St. Vincent Millay could afford now to foist off on her sympathetic public almost any callow piece of juvenilia. But The Princess Marries the Page is surprisingly, delightfully neither callow nor juvenile. A Princess, "the most beautiful Princess you have ever seen." is reading in her tower retreat. A saucy page, who has climbed up to the window ledge, interrupts her by tootling on his flute. Their...
...which the Smith Brothers boiled their first coughdrops, has one great day of sport each year. Eight of the best college crews in the U. S. were at Poughkeepsie last week preparing for it. M. I. T. and Pennsylvania were considered "dark horses," that is, feeble, until Rusty Callow's Penn boat rowed a fast time trial two days before the race. Preparing to defend their championship under a new coach named Buck Walsh, Navy's oarsmen spent an afternoon at Kingston, 15 miles away, watching Max Schmeling train for his heavyweight championship fight against Jack Sharkey. In the Columbia...
...chilly mist along the Harlem River to the starting line. Macrae Sykes was stroking. He was nervous in his freshman races last year but this year has shown a smooth rhythm, easy to pick up and follow. The third boat in the race was Pennsylvania, whose lightness Russell ("Rusty") Callow, once coach of great Washington crews, defended by saying: "I never cared much for very big oarsmen. This is the best material I've had at Penn." With twelve special buses trailing them along the bank the three sprinted away with Columbia in the lead. After the first quarter...
...Finger Points (First National). Based on last summer's murder of Alfred "Jake" Lingle, racketeer-reporter for the Chicago Tribune, this picture presents Richard Barthelmess as a cool but callow newshawk who grows rich by blackmailing gangsters. Disappointed in the rewards consequent upon his first scoop, the reporter offers to conceal further news of illegal enterprises if their promoters share the profits with him. When another reporter gets the story of a gangland gambling layout, gangsters blame the racketeer-reporter, perforate him. Routine exaggerations?of a hardboiled city editor, a thundering "Big Guy''?combine to make The Finger Points...
...particular existence. Routine jobs mould youth too fast. If college gives undergraduates the opportunity to travel some distance along several roads, if it keeps a man "unformed" until he can share with some intelligence the choice of his form, it is not the worst place to send this same "callow youth...