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...reposing in a Rolls-Royce while her chauffeur mends a flat tire. The Boy, sore smitten, circles the auto, displaying a repertoire of bicyclical virtuosity rivaled only by his vaulting hopes. Amused, the lady kisses her seraph-faced admirer, whose innocence in the throes of the cosmic "urge is droll to behold. Thus compromised, the trousered one needs must slay his contemporaneous sweetheart who lives next door, in order to be free to follow the grand passion inspired by the lady of the Rolls-Royce. In plenty of time and after many an antic he discovers that the Rolls-Royce...
...knows a "Philosophy of Ceilings." is humorous in his revlation of pathos. Life to him is no grand grasp of the mighty but a daily contact with the desperately stupid rhythm of life as it is. And the order of his day is the discovery of the droll, pathetic fact that life is life not a great scientific revelation but an amusing gesture. So Coles Philips would be right to suggest this as a Christmas gift, and the author of the Copeland reader is right in including an essay from it among the lore of his Christmas gift. "Oddly Enough...
There was a welcome for Conductor Josef Willem Mengelberg, red-faced, genial, like a country doctor, and the concert .was on. There was the gay, graceful symphony of Johann Christian Bach, eleventh son of the mighty Johann Sebastian Bach; there was Beethoven's Eighth, droll, delightful, made side-splitting here and there by the heavy hand of Mynherr Mengelberg, there were excerpts from Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, "Minuet of Will-o'-the-Wisps," "Dance of the Sylphs" and the "Rakoczy March," and sandwiched in between, featured, a U. S. work, given its first Manhattan performance...
...position of servant, the other to the position of master, for a whole year. The antics of elephantine Frank Mclntyre and dapper Charles Ruggles as the incompatible parties to the poker contract are enough to carry any show to success, even without the added help of droll comedienne Luella Gear, acrobatic Edwin Michaels, super-dynamic Gaile Beverly, beauteous Mary Lawlor, and a host of others. Willy Pogany made the settings...
...labored to become as a brawny lad of 15 in the hard-rock camps of Montana, Idaho and California, only instead of drawling his story aloud as he learned to do in tumbled bunk-shacks, glaring bars and chilly boxcars, he now puts it on paper with a few droll flourishes (for which he may be indebted to Mr. Kipling's Just So Stories) and a care not to be coarse...