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...suffered in prestige from its spotty showing against Lehigh. Reports from Princeton indicate that the Orange and Black team is far stronger than its showing to date would indicate. Coach Roper resents the idea that his team is doomed to be at the bottom of the Big Three heap...
...erected it to its "present perpendicular attitude" "Wang" would be already dead and happy in "innocuous desuetude." But Hopper gives the thing its, authority, as the Kentuckian said of the "corn" in the julep. When he is on (which happily is most of the time) whether to heap new polysyllabies on the head of his obtuse Semegambian followed, or to narrate before the curtain the tragic consequences of "The Wrong Flat", the audience laughs itself sick. When he is off, the play has as much freshness as is found in articles rummaged from grandmother's trunk in the attic...
...stock yards, and Boston for its beans, some degree of urban pride was possible; but now with Philadelphia hailed for its underworld, Washington for its baseball team, Chicago for its murderers, and--worst of all--Boston for its cake eating, Civil Pride must hide its head beneath the ash heap. One can forgive the other cities but never Boston--just entitled The Greatest Cake Eating Center in the World...
...flesh and the devil outside of his villa: "I beg you to declare that I have become the solitary, proud artist of 1911. It is my firm decision not to care or to know what happens outside my villa. Every evening, I burn before an altar of stone the heap of the day's unopened and unanswered letters. To write to me is useless, to come to my door equally useless. I answer nobody; I receive nobody. Neither prayer nor insolences can break my monastic enclosure. My dogs are wise and bite well. Have I made myself clear...
Until the present note, no action was taken by the Allies, who feared to heap fuel on the fires of Nationalism during the recent election...