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...action in "Splashing Into Society" is fast and furious. From their initial triumph in the field of poetry, the talented pair are swept onward and upward until after Lelia whitewashed the head lady tennis players, their hands are joined by the King before all the Society of England...
...Indeed yes,' simpered Lelia as to the manner born, with a good pull at her garters, at which the perfunctory Mr. Withersq ran into the road and he soon found a fresh-looking taxi...
...this glorious fashion did Mr. Withersq, whose uncle Bert had died and left him a good bit, set out to go into society, with his love Lelia. The dashing lady was "a fair rose of Briton, rather false hair like we see advertised, her somewhat perfect nose would scarce be noticed to have been turned up, owing to sleeping on her stomach". At the same time "she was just a lowborn girl, but none could beat her at playing the piano". And Mr. Withersq is no piker. He crashes right into a Bohemian festival the first night out, visits...
...announced as follows: Lord Chancellor, M. A. Shattuck '19 Earle of Mountararat, A. A. Rouner '20 Earle Tolloller, J. F. Lautner '21 Private Willis, E. C. Bennett '18 Strephon, T. A. Smith '18 Queen of Fairies, Susan Thomas 1920 Iolanthe, Anne Gardner uC Celia, a fairy, Dorothy Jones 1918 Lelia, a fairy, Mildred Ellis 1921 Phyllis, Doris Underhill...
...novels in her earlier style,- "Indiana," "Valentine," "Lelia," and "Jacques,"- belong distinctly to the history of romanticism. They met with an extraordinary success, which was due to their conformity to the state of the contemporary mind, to their eloquence, an unusual quality in the novel,- and finally to the fact that these books approached questions of universal interest and of vital importance to the very existence of society...