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...result, a compression of wonders perceived by a sensitive ear and mind, is to prove the plays strange and fresh enough to have been written yesterday or even tomorrow. Illuminated and relieved of their characteristic length and considerable dross, some seem almost too attractive, too clearly themselves. Not that Shakespeare's flops are spared. "The poet in The Comedy of Errors puffs with unnatural effort. . . . His rhymes . . . rattle like bleached bones." But The Merchant of Venice, in which money and love go hand in hand and uncorrupted, is a "gentlemen's world," inhabited by "creatures whose only function...
...that toy booklet which appeared last fall, so scholarly in its denatured, so anxiously emulous of its elder brethren. A column of humor painted the Lampoon's lily an article on Harvard indifference fairly stole Mother Advocate's bustle, and in a soft, artistic way, other pundits refined the dross from the Graduate's Magazine. The editors were not lacking in brilliance, but, are gratia artis, they eschewed such fundamental principles of journalism as might have gained them a wide and interested public. Journalism curdled their aesthetics, and the Parnassine fluid of their though became distillate to the point...
...committee for investigating excessive campaign expenditures. He refused to join the Senate until cleared. Mr. Morrow's credentials were late in arriving from New Jersey. The Vice President rapped smartly with his gavel; Chaplain ZeBarney Phillips began to pray: "May passion for the Commonwealth consume all dross of unworthy ambition...
...canny Chinaman, and by Mr. Sweeney as Harry Spats, who combines the business of a village haberdasher with that of a king of the dope-sellers. It is worth a vialt to "The Scarlet Fox" to see Mr. Sweeney and Miss Chambers turn the vivid dross of a gaudy melodrama into the real theatrical doing...
...nothing of this dross of ours...