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...comedies. The Playgoer is railing rather at the whole species. He thinks back to the brave days of Gilbert and Sullivan, of "Patience" and of "Pinafore." When the curtain rises on a new show, he recalls Sullivan's baton at the Savoy, and nostalgia overcomes him. He blows the froth off the new theatrical brew, looks within the stein, and finds it empty. Disappointment has made him crusty, and of the modern shows he applauds only "Of Thee I Sing," the one perfect blend of the "hey-nonny-nonny...
...nose, but this shark "about 25 feet long," was intent on stealing a big bluefish that the men were pulling in. Shooting out of the blue deep came the swordfish. The shark turned to flee but it was too late. For 35 minutes the sea was lashed into bloody froth. Then all was calm and the shark, his long white belly gashed to ribbons, floated dead on the surface, drifted away to make a meal for his own kind...
PETTICOAT INFLUENCE?Helen Hayes in diplomatic froth...
When examinations had been stressed at lunch to the exclusion of all intelligent conversation, the Vagabond yesterday left a petition at University Hall to have them abolished. It is time that something of the sort is done. These biannual excitations inducing a kind of subsidiary froth are naturally abhorrent to the epicure of food and talk. Dishonoring the tolerant muse of wisdom with such mental debauchery can be endured in silence; but the gibberings of the Bereaved One of Mt. Auburn St. should not be allowed to interfere with digestion...
...bishop who's quite fond of banning Whatever he haps to be scanning Made some one so wroth That he shouted with froth: "You cannot serve both God and Manning...