Word: ourself
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Revue, featuring Charlotte Greenwood is all of that. The appearance of the chorus put us in a good humor. Somehow it lacked the air, so common to choruses, of having been aged in the wood. The girls were this year's stock. A brother critic who is wiser than ourself said they were "fresh". Apparently all of them could dance, and in the course of the show most of them did. Miss Hurlburt in particular deserves praise for her specialty dancing...
...would not see pictures of an ex-Cabinet officer. . . . "If a man is too solemn, they'll think the whole weight of the world is on his shoulders. If he is gay, they'll think he is frivolous. The only thing to do is 'be ourself.'. . . "I have not a sore head or a sore toe. . . . "I have no personal feeling against the President. I am yet his dependable friend and supporter. . . . "No one need waste any time worrying about the ex-Attorney General. He will take care of himself until reason is restored and time...
...literary levels are beyond criticism. The essay on "Intellectuals and Roughnecks", for example, ought to be read--forcibly or otherwise--to every young "writer" or "literary man" or "thinker" under twenty-five years of age. It contains some things we have wanted to say ourself for a long time, but have never quite dared to for fear of being called crude. "An Oxford Symbol"--we may as well tell you beforehand that it is a corkscrew--is done in the best Morley style; Dame Quickly and Glssing add their bit; and the chapter on "Sir Kenelm Digby" is a rare...
Readers of the "Literary Review,"--they become more frequent every week,--are hebdominally favored with a "Guide" to a "balanced ration for weekedn reading." We approve of the scheme, in fact, adopted it ourself the day we recovered from an afternoon of Sarah Bernhardt by sitting under Billy Sunday in the evening, or vice versa, no matter. But why limit the choice to recent publications? Our own list for the weekend past, after the manner of the "Review," would look something like this...