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Elsewhere the mildest season reached from coast to coast. Warm in southern California, a perfect day for swimming in the Pacific, unseasonably warm in Kansas City, cloudy in the morning when the city went to church, sunny by the beginning of the tragic midday. In San Antonio "the day was coolish and switched from grey to clear. . . . Out in wooded Bracken-Park, kids were riding the ferris wheel and flying jenny; babies were being held in swings; miniature trains were tooting and whistling as kids were whirled by adoring parents. . . . The main streets were pretty full of wistful-eyed window...
There are many other omissions; but on the whole, for every ten words any reader will miss, he will recognize a thousand and learn at least fifty. Thanks to the form of the book, even the mildest categories read like nothing since Rabelais...
...Rangers." "Ay Ay Ay" and, of course, "Rio Rita." Of these, only the music still contains any real appeal, and coupled with the present popularity of the Latin American subject, gives the revival a "raison d'etre." At tempts to bring the lines up to date enjoy only the mildest of success...
...midst of preparation for an Ec or Physics exam,--it is bittersweet. Everyone is wildly happy through reel after reel. Then a tinge of dewey-eyed sadness and the molasses rolls up and down the aisles in great gooey gobs. The whole thing ought to give even the mildest cynic indigestion for weeks...
...most magnificent passages in the English language;* but it is about a mother-in-law. William Shakespeare himself gets uncommonly fancy and feeble; the one grand piece of eloquence Dr. Phelps allows him to deliver is from Hamlet, is spoken in disgust, and is, at that, the mildest dose of vitriol the good doctor could lift out of Hamlet's tongue-lashing. And Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a sometime master of verbal magic, begins a mother-sonnet...