Word: pots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ways and places. He knows how trout-fishing in Michigan feels; how Yankee jockeys, straight and crooked, ride on European tracks; how half-breed squaws bear their children back of the logging camps; how bulls and toreros slaughter one another in Spain. He knows what it is like to pot German soldiers scaling a garden wall; to ski in the Tyrol; to bum on Canadian freight trains; to be in love, just at first and then really. How he knows things you cannot say; he writes so directly, without fuss and feathers, with so little explanation of himself...
...Norse discovery of America. Maurice Baring's poems have been issued in a collected edition. E. A. Robinson's "Dionysius in Doubt" and Robert Hillyer's "Halt in the Garden" are well known and have been so well reviewed in the CRIMSON that I need add no comment. "The Pot of Earth" by Archibald...
What is happening here? Is England on a cultural tobbogan sliding to the level designated for the United States; or has the lid come off when the pot started boiling, exposing the fact that the ingredients are much the same the world over? Perhaps the question will be debarred in the London papers, as an after-thought...
...woman who divorced Jack Gilbert before he had played in "The Merry Widow", is chief bandit in this picture. Bad as she may have been, it seemed unnecessarily brutal to make her stand by during a cinematic thunderstorm while her brother, and the rest of the cast, took pot-shots at her. But she scrambled bravely up two or three hundred feet of precipice, as advertised, and reached her destination. The native girl did wing her once in the shoulder with a shot gun, but she struggled on and threw the bomb out of dangerous proximity. All this goes...
...well can. So there you are. But, oh, yes, these is Bessie Love too, who does a very jazzy version of the Charleston, and Oscar Shaw whom we haven't seen since the failure of "One Kiss." The vaudeville is an inspiring but reasonably successful version of the melting pot theme. You've seen it all somewhere before...