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...high point in Mr. Chaloner's contacts with the spirit world came when he respectfully called upon "Mister Shakespeare," who obligingly responded (via Mr. Chaloner's pencil), stated he wished to refute the prevailing deplorable impression that he had meant Hamlet to be mad, and just to prove it, he had written two new scenes. Mr. Chaloner then read them, announced sternly that "Mister Shakespeare's" spirit had promised they should some day be produced on Broadway. When that happens, no one will recognize Hamlet. Ophelia will no longer be mad. "Mister Shakespeare" said he only made Ophelia...
...paper Princeton has a slight advantage, and Yale a considerable one. One ardent track follower who has already run both meets through with his pad and pencil, declares that the final score of the Harvard-Princeton meet will result in a 69-36 victory for the Tigers; while the Yale track men will have the substantial margin...
...schoolboy who has chewed his pencil top ragged trying to decide between an el and an ie will be the first to favor Mr. Blaneo's suggestion. But those who have emerged from that untutored age usually take a craftsman's delight in puzzling out the jumble of vowels and consonants that represent primitive grunts and groans. Even if by simplification English could become the world's language a vigorous cry must be raised against such a process...
...whether there is not yet a third Lunacharsky addition to the prefacial exponent and the dramatist- Lunacharsky the Bolshevik Commissioner of Education and head of the censorship-and whether the latter doesn't think this production of our national proletarian theatre needs a heavy dose of blue pencil...
...Winnie" was madly cheered by his supporters. Smiling broadly, he rushed down the room, shook hands with his wife who had helped him in his Rooseveltian struggle. A celebration began. The counting officer said nothing, but kept working with pencil and paper. He added again, and announced that a mistake had been made: Otho Nicholson had won by a majority of 43 votes. The ballot stood at Nicholson (Conservative), 8,187; Churchill (Independent), 8,144; Brockway (Labor), 6,156; Duckers (Liberal...