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...Orliac takes up the tale where Lawrence dropped it, reshuffles the cards and, by slipping a Gallic joker into the pack, makes the game come out exactly as she wants it. An implicit criticism of Lawrence's visceral philosophy, Lady Chatterley's Second Husband is no jest but a soberly serious attempt to answer a passionate argument...
...naturally fitted for making a humorous speech, but he must be trained to the point of highest efficiency in a cram school for brainless clowning. For professor I nominate the heeler who wrote the CRIMSON editorial board. I have failed. It is impossible to carry the jest further than you have already carried it in yesterday's editorial. The system of elections that has chosen for Ivy Orator such men as Loftus Becker, Stephen Stackpole, and Vincent Palmer needs no improvements. W. H. Lewis...
...Redeemer!"* Sample of Author Bradford's method of writing dialect: "And Valivostop! Dat's whar us stopped at to load on some coal. Dey got some drinkin' licker made out'n rice and bramboo and stuff named vockster. And drunk you? I tuck jest two drinks and dey had to tote me on de ship in a sack...
Entering into the spirit of the jest, the Democratic National Committee rushed around to tell five conservative Democratic Senators?Glass and Byrd of Virginia, Tydings of Maryland, Gore of Oklahoma, Bailey of North Carolina?that they were accused of being in league with the League, an accusation which no one had made. Promptly all five issued ringing denials which were so much good grist for the Democratic Committee mill...
...jest wanta say a word to thank that there northern feller Carmer for the fine book he has wrote about us pore ignorant people down here in Alabama [TIME, July 2]. They shore do discover things about us and we do like for the rest of the world to know how we live down here...