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...life, particularly at the craze for gold, has collected his complaints in a play. He sets it in the California gold rush days and much of it occurs in a boisterous bar. Gold is discovered under the floor. There is a gold rush. Bright scarlet women circulate suggestively. Men howl for whiskey. There is no pretense at connected story. Mr. Swift is seemingly as much at war with dramatic forms as with this world we live in. Flashes of vivid satire, bits of brutal delight gleamed in his dialog like gold nuggets. The rest was sand and water...
...lawyer. His wife and his shorthand were what helped him through the University of Nebraska. Between classes at the Harvard Law School he was secretary to Philosopher William James. Among his classmates was Elihu Root Jr., under whose father's aegis the Manhattan firm of Root, Clarke, Buckner, Howl and Ballantine was set up in 1912, when the partners were only "five years out of school." The 16-year-old firm now employs fifty-some associates and, a thoroughgoing municipal investigation of considerable gravity being required, Partner Buckner is the man called in. For defense against hard-hitting Lawyer...
...prevalent is the spirit of the west throughout the play that wide canvas of the University is being made to find a westerner who can faithfully imitate the howl of the coyote. If the search is successful, the effective imitator will enjoy the distinction of being the first person to imitate the coyote's howl over the radio, as a rehearsal of scenes five and six, in which the coyote features, will be given this evening over station WNAC...
...prank: "Antony and I had a world of fun. We would rush up to a house (in the darkness), knock loudly at the door, and then hide ourselves in the shadows. When the door was opened, we let out a long, dismal, wolflike howl, and then ran away giggling in the dark...
...recent suggestion that Harvard College be moved to Dayton, Tenn.? The new atrocity, at any rate is here--noted in your news columns of Friday May 13, with the announcement that vaccination is to be a requisite for entrance to Harvard next year. Will the people who howl so vigorously about personal rights in connection with prohibition please step forward? Oh, you are silent, are you? I should like to call your attention to the fact that the world's best minds, from Moliere and Le Sage to Bernard Shaw, have valiantly resisted the efforts of the medical fraternity...