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Even down here in the heart of the Sugar Bowl we know that you've just got to have nice, sour lemons to make good lemonade. Give Mr. Harper his lump sugar, but continue making the rest a little on the tart side for us good-natured fellows.
To Hollywood Mike is a magnificent stooge in a place which can afford magnificent stooges. They laugh at his good-natured Oxonian pomposity, chuckle over his full assumed title, Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, never use his real name, Harry Gerguson.
Such footnotes on the American temperament seem characteristic rather than unique in The Oregon Trail. As readers follow the footprints of their forbears over the plains they get a warm picture of them-a great people for carving their names on rocks and monuments, as if determined to leave some...
Review. In 1924, Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benet and Christopher Morley took The Saturday Review of Literature out of the New York Evening Post, launched it as a separate publication. Its amiable reviews, amiable literary gossip, mildly titillating personal ads, weekly word puzzle, reached some 30,000 readers. Dr...
The first two volumes of The Thibaults, published in the U. S. in 1926, traced the lives of Antoine and his younger brother, Jacques, to the threshold of their careers. The present volume (which includes a new translation of the first two) carries them on, shows Jacques, emotional, unstable, imaginative...