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...that it is better to have a bad sheriff who can shoot fast than a good one who can't. It is a tribute to Quinn's inventiveness that by scratching, bumbling, slobbering and gazing dumbly out of his unshaven face, he manages to make a conventional pasteboard character seem like a real human slob...
...doubts exist in spite of all the pasteboard pscudo-springs that will slide from the envelopes in Memorial hall this afternoon. For we are sure that the multi-colored cards will brazenly sport the word "spring" whether or not the unequivocal sign of the robin follows. We don't know whether our doubts are entirely due to the seasonal slush or the boredom of the examination period. Perhaps the scientists and the politicians should rightfully share part of the guilt. Every year now, we've felt that it's only through a chance combination of treaties, agreements, and nervous glances...
...enjoy Me and Juliet is to forget Oklahoma, South Pacific, and The King and I. Certainly Rodgers and Hammerstein did, for their new musical is a leggy trifle, with an abundance of color and no significance. Hammerstein's characters in Me and Juliet seem cut from pasteboard to be maneuvered through a plot that's as corny as Kansas in August. But since the cast is talented and the staging fabulous, the show is a pleasant evening of lightweight entertainment...
...retorted the doctor hurriedly. He added, politely: "Giants ahead, six to nothing," and hung up. Once more the U.S. celebrated the seven days of the long lunch hour, the surreptitious telephone call, the quick office bet, and-to feverish New Yorkers-of the hunt for the ducat, the pasteboard, the seat at the game. BASEBALL FEVER, the sports pages dutifully reported, GRIPPED THE COUNTRY...
Over the heads of those in front, pasteboard periscopes peered like curious Brontosauri. There were cowboys and a trick dog from California, shivering bathing beauties from Florida...