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...Lappish description of Lapp quarreling, drinking and reindeer-stealing (most heinous Lapp offense) see Turi's Book of Lapland by Lapland's sole author of note, Johan Olafsson Turi (b. 1860), who philosophically observes "When you will tell of everything you must write both of the ugly and the beautiful...
...original idea behind Girls in Uniform calls for atmospheric rather than dramatic presentation. The simple story: Manuela discovers happiness in her scholastic exile until she finds that her devotion to her teacher is regarded as a far more heinous infraction of the rules than passing notes. Possibly because most of them did not understand German, U. S. filmgoers were struck by the shy fragility of this relationship. The sense of grey imprisonment, so successfully captured on the screen, is almost entirely lost on the stage. As if to atone for lack of convincing atmosphere, those responsible for Girls in Uniform...
...gallant. Just in time to save the situation and the Congressman's soul came a curious concatenation of circumstances : the stockmarket crashed and took his amateurish speculations with it; beautiful Mrs. Miller hooted with laughter at the suggestion that she divorce her husband and marry Dan; a heinous appropriation bill reared its ugly head and Daniel smacked it, though in vain. The last you see of him he is flying furiously westward to prevent Irma Schmultz from sailing to the Philippines. As you close the book you are sure that he will get her, sure that he will...
This tendency, the CRIMSON believes, is to be commended, together with the change in student and official athletic attitude which permits a student to make his own way, free from any stigma of disloyalty to his obligations or that most heinous of Early Twentieth Century charges, lack of College Spirit...
...Cleopatra from an equal height and a sickening thud is the result. Erskine maintains the integrity and complexity of his character, and the reader is impressed even if he is disillusioned and mortified. Thomas makes the serpentine Cleopatra a naughty high school girl magnifying her most minute sins into heinous debauchery Anyone having entertained admiration for Shakespeare's Cleopatra whose person "beggar'd all description" will put aside "Cleopatra's Private Diary," the appetite cloyed, the effect being similar to that obtained by eating cheap chocolates...