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Farrebique and Schoolgirl Diary make a peculiar duo at the Old South. The former is a remarkable French semi-documentary about a year of peasant life, while the latter finds new-Hollywoodized Alida Valli in carlier, or schoolgirl, costume in a poor-to-middling melodrama...
Your obvious sympathy for Mr. Wallace and his mistakes has made me feel so sorry for the poor man that I have decided to vote...
Nervous and shy, he was a poor student in school and made few friends. Once, told by his mother to kiss a cousin, "I went obediently up and she drew me towards her; but at the sight of her bare shoulder and its dazzling whiteness, some sort of craziness possessed me; instead of putting my lips to the cheek she offered me, fascinated by her dazzling shoulder, I gave it a great bite . . . My cousin screamed with pain and I with horror. She began to bleed and I to spit with disgust...
...when Mary Stuart, Queen of the Scots, brought her court to Edinburgh, Knox cried: "The preachers were wondrous vehement in reprehension of all manner of vice, which then began to abound; and especially avarice, oppression of the poor, excess, riotous cheer, banqueting, immoderate dancing, and whoredom that thereof ensues." Knox titled one famous pamphlet "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women...
...golf competitions, forced to an abortive conclusion by inclement weather and impending exams, Dunster and Leverett tied for first with Winthrop, Adams, Eliot, and Kirkland knotted at third, and Lowell placed a poor last...