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Penn took its hidden ball trick to Champaign, ILL., where the illustrious Frosty Peters proved that a strong boot is better than patent elbow pads by kicking the goal that won for Illinois in the last period...
...another type, 'elusive charm', 'clashes of beauty', 'sharply silhouetted',--ad nauseam. But what, as Mr. Littel asks, is to be done? One must use words and phrases to "fill in" especially when one has little to say, And these old companions are "so often found at one's elbow when in a hurry or a tight place"; they are words which have niches and occasions rather than meanings". Mr. Littel is right; what would we do without them? They are not the private sins of book reviewers; they are common to persons of less fame. As long...
Calithump In Woodbury, Conn., one William James Coutts was last week married to a Miss S. E. Skilton. This couple failed fo observe an oldtime Woodbury custom: they failed to provide free cigars to as many bummers as could elbow their way into the wedding reception. Therefore the small sons and nephews of these bummers (also the hoodlum daughters and nieces) assembled automobile horns, Klaxons, tin pans, fish horns, blank cartridges, a fire siren; gave the Coutts on two successive nights what the local press described as "an oldtime calithumping...
...unusual thrill to Washington gentry to touch the elbow of Mrs. Coolidge while she shops in a crowded department store, or to see her as she walks along the sunny avenue. Frequently she sorties unattended. Last week it was fortunate that her son, John, was at her arm when she snagged her heel in the pavement in front of the White House, slipped, nearly fell, before he caught...
...Again (Richard Dix, Chester Conklin). Any actor with Chester Conklin at his elbow runs grave risk. Mr. Conklin is so superbly comic that the witnesses are likely to be annoyed at interruptions by the usual movie romance. Such is the case with this display. Richard Dix, inevitably capable and decorative, tries to project a threadbare mythical kingdom story in opposition to Mr. Conklin's staggering comedy. Probably for the first time in history the custard pie is the power behind the throne...