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...vicious booting liquor . . . Before prohibition, beer was regarded as a comcomitant of a college career . . . Not one tenth of one per cent of the youth in college know what really good American beer tastes like . . . They will have to be educated . . . They have become fed up with humdrum existence without beer, and seem to require girls and hard liquor for diversion as they know no other way." This monograph on the necessity of education college youth speaks for itself equally well to all with or without a sense of humor...
...break an unending monotony. When he thinks of snow covered firs, lakes bound in dark green shimmering ice, among the low rolling hills, and a certain Louis Seize drawing room where a joyful terrier momentarily basks before a crackling hickory fire, he wonders dimly how he will endure humdrum Cambridge till June. At this point in his cogitation he wanders absently to the punch bowl, and helps himself to a bit more, with a generous spike...
Times have changed since high-spirited British subjects used to fire an occasional shot (which always missed) at young Queen Victoria and her young Prince Consort, Albert.* In the humdrum present, British subjects could scarcely believe sworn testimony in a London court last week that when H. R. H. Prince George went to work in the slummy East End citizens shook their fists and shouted: "Give us food! We don't want royal parasites...
...creator; but no scholar hitherto has advanced so logically from detail to totality, and none has formulated as precisely this ultimate answer to the problem, as the author of this book. Not that Meyer was the spirit of an Italian condottiere in the body of a burgher of the humdrum Swiss nineteenth century, but that through overcompensation for his won sickly body and for the narrow sphere of his activity, he fied--from weakness, not from exuberance of strength--to the grandeur of the times and heroes he represents in his works...
...Pullman Car Hiawatha" you are supposed to imagine, with the aid of a few chairs placed vis-a-vis, the interior of a Pullman on its way from Manhattan to Chicago. The action, which starts off realistically enough, goes rapidly symbolic: Archangels Gabriel and Michael, other such un-humdrum figures appear. Of the other plays two ("Queens of France," "Love and How to Cure It") are farces; two out-realize Belasco...