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Senator Osmena, also a mestico (half caste), exhibits his Chinese extraction in his importunable demeanor, impeccable manners and enduring patience. He has not always agreed with his headlong young friend, being content to guide Filipino destinies slowly as Speaker of the Assembly for almost 20 years. He would be more content than Manuel Quezon to see Philippine Independence come in three steps instead of at a bound. The three steps might be: 1) Civilian administration by the U. S.; 2) "Philippine Free State" with a U. S. High Commissioner; 3) Independence...
...many hours. Snow and ice became water as the endless rain from the sky beat down on the glaciers and a hundred snow-capped summits. Little pools formed and overflowed into rivulets and tore down the sides of the ravines into the streams that gurgled and splashed in their headlong course to the mightier rivers they feed...
...Modernists begun to take Pavel Jerdanowitsch that Paul Jordan Smith decided that the artist must die. According-ingly he exposed his duality through the columns of the Los Angeles Sunday Times. His chief delight seems to be that France, whence final decrees on the vague modern estheticism emanate, fell headlong Into his trap...
...good, of course, since every one will either fail to hear him or think that he cheated and wrote on every other line. Meanwhile six proctors are rushing to his aid, the head proctor in his haste forgetting the table in front of him and taking a headlong live on to the floor, thereby hurting himself not a little. Overcome, I jump out of the west rose window and hastily repair to Wadsworth House for a little special instruction in mental hygiene...
Above all, though, the show is fast. Everyone dances: almost all of them competently, some well--at least one; Edward Allen, in a Buster West sort of tumble, superbly. At the rise of the curtain the play achieves a headlong velocity which it strives to keep up all evening for the most part with good success. This swift tempo is largely due to the chorus, the "Twelve Judy Joyous Joy Walkers", very rightly headlined. Almost everyone of the dozen, besides doing splits, turning cartwheels, and kicking head-high, does a specialty of some sort. Together they frisk and float about...