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...appearance during the ceremonies in Washington as follows: "He looked so frightened, and so very, very young that you felt your old Adam's apple working, and you wished that you might get to him, and put your arm around him, like you would do with the lad at home, and say to him: 'Now, looky here, sonny, don't you be scart, these folks are just trying to let you know they're glad...
...Come, come, my lad", I added. And we went to the side show. The fat lady immediately fascinated Oscar. "How does she get that way?", he punned. At which dirty crack I felled him with a right to the liver and three or four agreeable remarks. So he asked her. Her life story will appear under his name in the first interesting edition of the Alumni Bulletin. He has her picture done by some landscape artist of the gay seventies...
...President's father was a vinedresser ? a peasant in wooden sabots and an earth-stained blouse. As a lad, little Gaston wriggled his bare toes often in grape mash as he trod out the juices on which fermentation works. The circumstances of his rise (TIME, Aug. 2) need not be rehearsed again. Nothing is more certain than that when the King-Emperor and the President greeted each other last week, two able but almost incredibly lucky men shook hands...
...Katja" turns out to be something much less than a wow. One can mention two possible causes for this decline and fall of what is evidently a good operetta in other places; one is the cast which, with the exception of an energetic young lad with a flare for burlesque; a large sized edition of Lenore Ulric, who flings herself about with enjoyable abandon; and a blonde variety of Ann Pennington, who possesses all the well known Pennington attributes including the dimpled knees, is distinotly mediocre. The other reason lies in the fact that a play billed as "gorgeously mounted...
Dapper and citified in spats and white piping on his vest, this elegant gentleman steps into the Overlook homestead and meets the missus. During the course of the conversation Overlook allows that despite his fifteen years in the city, he has always been a country lad at heart, whereas his visitor and his charming wife were born to the civilized life of cities. The latter looks at Mrs. Overlook with "a twist of hopeless longing in his eyes," and replies in a low voice. "I was born in a Iowa...