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...biggest display of House spirit in several years, they then broke into the Union and entertained dining Yardlings with Leverett yells, speeches, and napkin-tossing. The freshmen cheered the show throughout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bunnies Stampede Union in '53-Hunt | 3/29/1950 | See Source »

...Hope pictures to see the great man mug, and to hear the latest from the sub-artistic world of two line jokes. Unfortunately in "The Great Lover" the unwilling aficionados are subjected to long sequences in which Roland. Young polishes off a recent Yale graduate with the napkin from a champagne bottle, and a half dozen small children plot together, trying to act grown-up. In addition Hope is forced to portray a character out of North Zanesville, Ohio. He is therefore not nearly so funny as when he is portraying Bob Hope...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Within a Budding Grove. All these arguments are plausible enough, but they cannot hold soup when the pro-beards come into action. Beavered Irishmen, for example, have always insisted that a beard is much handier and more absorbent than a table napkin (Author Reynolds concedes that his source for this is an English historian). Similarly, the 19th Century French Romantics demonstrated beyond doubt that by growing a broad enough beard a man could wear the same shirt collar for months on end. Moreover, as one authority has estimated, a bearded man could learn seven languages in the time spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hair Apparent | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...Napkin on the Knee. The luncheon-held in a high-ceilinged Senate committee room complete with crystal chandelier, potted palms and outrageous painted cherubs-soon resembled a subway rush. A bar did a roaring business at one end of the room. A jostling throng of Senators, Cabinet officers, Congressmen and newsmen juggled drinks and loaded plates as the President sat eating, napkin on knee, on a chair against the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President's Week, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...hair grow long in hell, said I; here's another "think piece." But I continued to read with an open mind. It didn't make much sense--in fact, I had just decided to dismember it, and was tucking the napkin under my chin, when I happened to notice the title. "Boy Meets Girl." Then it occurred to me that in each of the story's four scenes a Boy had met a Girl, and I felt like Balboa. Which goes to show that one ought to read titles more carefully. "Boy Meets Girl" (From Beowulf to the Present...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

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