Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NATIVE ARGOSY-Morley Callaghan- Scribner's ($2.50) Last year Morley Callaghan of Canada wrote Strange Fugitive, and was promptly likened to Ernest Hemingway of Michigan for his brusque, compact style, intently modern. His characters, of middling low mentality; his incidents, grim and macabre in their humor, smacked of contacts as a newspaper reporter. This year Author Callaghan furthers his reputation by a collection of stories, one of which-far from the best-was included in The American Caravan (arty anthology). A better story is entitled "A Predicament," and concerns a young priest disturbed at confessional by a drunk...
...news unheard of. So Vaughan, eager to learn what Crimson teams have done this year, wrote to the publicity office of the H. A. A.; and in reply a complete summary of Harvard's victories and defeats will be broadcast from Schenectady Saturday or Sunday evening, probably on the low-wave radio-phone transmitter...
Considering that "This Thing Called Love" consists of three acts and not of just one, it sums up to a rather low score. Did it consist of but the second act, it would be admirable fare. For this is sparkling, light, touched with wisdom. It has all the attributes of good comedy writing. Unfortunately, there are also from Mr. Burke's pen two additional acts, sandwiching this good one. As in all sandwiches, the meet is in the middle...
...readers. For example, the description of some of the advertisements: "The said magazine contained a certain advertisement under the following caption: Gland Glad, Papa's Silent Partner. The aforesaid advertisements represented that the use of its product 'Brings quick animation, ready response, lingering satisfaction. If your vitality is low gladden your glands... Be a he-man'; when in truth and in fact the aforesaid representations were exaggerated and in excess of probable accomplishment...
Because of the fact that Saturday's trial was rowed at a relatively low stroke. Coach Brown will hold over the selection of his first and second eights until tomorrow when he will send the two crews over the course with admonitions to cover the distance in the shortest possible time. The competition for berths is close and it is necessary to see the men row under pressure in order to judge them to advantage...