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Whether the article on Bernard Norfolk [England's Premier Duke who recently came of age] is true or untrue, I think it is horrid to publish such a thing. In this case, it is completely untrue. The Duke of Norfolk failed to get into Oxford because of his varied and incomplete education (although not by nurse and private tutors as TIME says). He is one of the most intelligent boys I know and I know no boy so well equipped to carry out the tremendous responsibilities with which he has been left...
...very annoying to those who would wade through the tropical growth of bubbling Gallic lack of restraint. In contrast to the precision of other French prose, this translated outburst of M. Escholier indicates that, like the little girl who is very good, French writing when it is bad, is horrid...
Playwright Robertson's melodrama follows the prevailing modes of theatrical violence; at times the stench of the underworld pervades his scenes, although he achieves not quite such horrid insinuations as those conveyed by the derbied, white-faced gunmen in Ernest Hemingway's short story classic of lunch-counters and racketeering, "The Killers." But Robertson's comedy is far above par; in his own chatter and the comments of a crowd of rubberneckers gathered about the murdered detective, his idiom bears comparison with that of the great Ring W. Lardner. When the play is not vicious...
...Lexel adds that, horrid as the gargling in the dining room was, it at least served to mitigate the beastliness of being kissed by a lot of people whose mouths and beards smelled and tasted of dinner! But then Lexel never did like promiscuous embraces, and, as a very small boy, once flatly refused to kiss even the Emperor's hand...
American Tobacco. Production of Lucky Strikes in January showed an increase of 14½ times the total increase registered for all brands. Cremo (Spit is a horrid word) is being produced at the rate of 1,110,000 a day. When American Tobacco's George Washington Hill took over the active management of American Cigar Co. last May only 93,000 Cremos were being made...