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...called Lost Sheep. Rev. William Wampus, awaiting the completion of a new parish house, moves with his wife (Marie Cecilia ["Cissie"] Loftus) and three comely daughters to a recently abandoned bordello in Higher Hempstead, Middlesex, England. So that the play's double meanings will not elude even the dullest playgoer, Mrs. Wampus continually addresses her daughters as "her girls," and the daughters further the effect by referring to her as "madame." Complications set in as soon as the young men of the neighborhood, believing that nothing more untoward has occurred than a change of management, begin calling...
Fast skating and a few examples of clever stick work were all that saved last night's encounter from being one of the season's dullest. The Cambridge coach, with Giddens back in harness, was obviously experimenting with his various forward line combinations, while the Boston team was handicapped by its lack of coordinated practice. The approaching tilts with the Yale sextet must still be regarded in the light of a rather mediocre record, despite the fact that many Crimson ice followers had hoped for a sudden reversal of form with the return of Giddens to the University lineup...
...events. ... I have not made up any conversations or rearranged any events with an eye to dramatic effect." Biographer Whitlock's eclectic synthesis, whatever it may do to the real La Fayette, emphasizes the not very astonishing fact that his guiding principle was liberty-love. Only in the dullest of classrooms will the Whitlock style of biography not seem to produce a tedious ache...
...received $51,230. He claimed they still owed him $257,655 for professional services. He had, he stated, been hired to prepare literature, information, data, to write articles, to interview public officials and press representatives, to make speeches in behalf of U. S. shipbuilding from 1926 to 1929. The dullest Congressman could see the connection: Big Navy?more cruisers; more cruisers?more work, more profits, for U. S. shipbuilding companies...
...where they have failed) they come, from little towns that seemed too slow, from little flats that seemed too small. Dancing is no pleasure to them. Dancing is their business. Be it the breath of a drunken sailor that blows warm past their cheeks or the wit of the dullest tomlinson that assails their ears, they must dance and sometimes smile...