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...vagabond's life is romantic if it is anything, and a vagabond who does not lock up to the more renowned members of his genus is nothing...
...into the world emaciated, pale-faced neurasthenic high brows. . . . We believe in athletics but we are not interested in ... a few giants . . . We believe in college life, as it is called . . . but we are not interested if this side of college produces only sleek, well-fed bipeds of the genus homo (by courtesy) sapiens, whose most obvious contribution, to a waiting and anxious world is their ability to serve as models of the youth so familiar with ready-made clothing advertisements...
...cinemedition of Novelist Edna Ferbeer's recent opus suggests four things: that no amount of grease paint will make Colleen Moore look very much older than, say, 30; that Ben Lyon and Phyllis Haver are both of the genus stuffed shirt and may as well resign themselves to that fate; that Wallace Beery can play a stolid soil-tiller to the last grunt; that Director Charles Brabin bent carefully over his knitting of deft acting into homely, racy atmosphere, until the final quarter of this film; then Director Brabin dropped the needles and cried: "Paste up the rest...
...Mount Rainier bestowed by its discoverer, Captain George Vancouver, in 1792, in accordance with time honored custom, to Mount Tacoma, on the plea that the latter was the aboriginal name. The rank and file of the people of Tacoma are sincere and honorable?a typical cross section of the genus Americanus. They have been told?and are told daily? that the Indian name was Mount Tacoma, and they are ready to fight...
...American college student, regaled with novels like Daudet's Sappho and nourished upon choice anecdotes of the Montmartre, has long been accustomed to look to Paris as the Elysian Fields of the genus Student. But the days of cheap beer and gay grisettes exist only in the imagination. The present lot of the Parisian student is indeed, a sorry...