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...behold. Strong men fainted, and one ill-starred lampoon sympathizer died from grief and pity as he beheld the sweeping avalanche of CRIMSON tallies pulverize lampoon hopes, annihilate lampoon hurlers, and bury the puny lampoon total of two runs under a score far beyond the wildest aspirations of mere mortal batters and base runners. After the thunderburst of journalistic prowess had finally spent itself, after the wreckage had been cleared away enough for the umpires to discover the battered remains of what had once been lampy's proud diamond hope it was discoved that the CRIMSON had amassed 23 runs...
...Steadfast amid 'the changes of this mortal life,' they unflinchingly held aloft the standard of ideal Americanism. . . . Because of their patriotic deeds the stars of our flag shine brighter in their azure field, while their inspiring example heightens the stainless purity of its white bars and deepens its crimson stripes with the warm blood of their hearts true devotion...
...Seven Mortal Sins are: wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, covetousness and sloth. What is the seventh...
...tailored there is positively no detecting but a great deal of sure suspense. Dr. Morel, "fashionable specialist" to feminine Paris, is no Dr. Jekyll who turns crudely into a Mr. Hyde by taking mysterious drugs. Rather he is a Jekyll-Hyde, a suave seducer and experimenter with the mortal coil. His undoing is his better self. The theme of a bad man unable to achieve the aloof, unswerving wickedness of a fiend, is deftly handled with occasional bits in quite the Stevensonian vein. Naturally it is the very modern heroine who undoes the doctor by giving herself to him when...
...author: "A certain committee last week announced winners of the O. Henry Memorial Prizes in short-story-writing for 1926. Wilbur Daniel Steele won $500 for 'Bubbles.' Dr. Blanche Colton Williams, the committee chairman, said that My Mortal Enemy, by Willa Cather had tied-for first prize but 'Bubbles' won because Miss Cather had published her tale as a short novel. Sherwood Anderson received second prize ($250) for 'Death in the Woods.' And to me they offered third prize ($100) for 'Between Worlds.' I refused to give permission for the reprinting of my story. The committee then fell back...