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Dudley and Silliman, teams which have lost all other games during the season, fought to a scoreless tie yesterday. Dudley made three concerted efforts to score, while Silliman failed to threaten once. Two passers, Dave Mahoney for the Commuters and John Goldsmith for Silliman, stood out for their long throws...
...irreverent, as aristocratic societies are; it was libertine in word, but preserved the trite, conventional and charming copybook morality of the 18th Century in action. When he died, Shaw was really a hundred years older than his admitted age, as sweet and prim and gentle as anyone out of Goldsmith...
...father. And there was a second strain of Irish genius which can be developed to a higher pitch outside that country: the role of the stage-Irishman. Whenever that genius has submitted to the discipline of the theater, it has been irresistible. Behind Shaw the dramatist were Goldsmith, Sheridan and Wilde...
...Young Boswell wasted no time in pushing himself forward. He chatted easily, had a knack for making friends, had his hair "dressed" every day and took care to be seen in the most fashionable places. He was soon intimate with Lord and Lady Northumberland, Actor David Garrick, Writer Oliver Goldsmith and a fast set of tony young rakes. He dined well, co-authored (with Andrew Erskine) a book of poems and letters which he calmly reviewed himself in the London Chronicle as "a book of true genius." London's more objective Critical Review called the poems "the cheapest...
...Though Goldsmith Maid also earned some $150,000 in exhibitions...