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...this time the scrivener was so famished that the stuffed brown bears on the cliff overlooking the lake looked appetizing and as the Golden Rod Bassaqua was fondling a pet "huskey" instead of cooky savory moose chops he excused himself and headed for the nearest "hot dog" caravansary...
...Cliff Collins, farmer, went to bed early that night. His house, with every window dark, stood at the edge of some cottonwoods. His daughter, a thin girl of 20 who had cooked for him since his wife died, slept in the next room; his son slept downstairs with his boots on;; his dog slept in the woodshed...
Cars stopped in the road; the long white figures got out. "Come down Cliff," hailed a voice. Stubborn and terrified, Farmer Collins would not open the door. The men broke it down. They took Mr. Collins off to the wood, and finding the trembling girl and the heavy eyed boy, took them along as well-flogged father, son and daughter...
Deftly, even dumbly, lie has poised on the cliff of fancy the future of the United Fruit Company. And how well Miss Fyre from the School of Dramatics While you Wait read her correspondence. To say that these schools like the great Sears. Roebuck cannot breen genius is to verge on the truth. And imagine verging on the truth. In fact imagine verging anyway. Miss Fvre sees Etta Banana's tragedy and shuts her eyes. I remembered, as I saw her, that famous evening when the great and only Eddie Foy, his family and I filled the old Madison Square...
Daisy Mayme, middle-aged merchant-maid of Harrisburg, lonesome but always laughing, meets Cliff Mettinger, bachelor, and his orphan niece on the bright shore at Atlantic City. She goes to Cliff's suburban home as the family guest, there to encounter feminine intrigue: Cliff's two sisters eager for his money. During the downpour of a domestic storm, Daisy blossoms forth a late but hardy bride. As usual, Mr. Kelly subordinates action to characterization and dialogue, with the result that his play moves slowly. As usual, Mr. Kelly's protagonists tell Mr. Kelly's antagonists just...