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Nobody controls President Quezon, not even Quezon, say the Filipinos. They know. Sometimes they say it with exasperated affection, like Brooklyn people talking about the Dodgers. Sometimes they say it with gleeful malice, as they recount President Quezon's latest prankish maneuver against austere, high-minded Francis Sayre, U.S. High Commissioner. Sometimes they say it with pride-their shrewd, peppery, uncontrollable Quezon, their cleverest politician, their smartest poker player, their smoothest ballroom dancer, their best-dressed man, their orator, their constant winner by overwhelming votes, their patriot, their President...
...Dartmouth a college of hemen. He developed the famed Outing Club, made Dartmouth a power in intercollegiate sports, introduced a new system of selection whereby freshmen were picked not only for brains but for all-round ability. In the '20s, Dartmouth men were the prototype of U.S. collegians-prankish, studiously unkempt, boisterous at football games, busy with campus activities, scornful of esthetes...
Great tongues of flame leap from the sun, a half-million miles into space, sink back and leap again. Sometimes, strangely, clouds of gases appear out of nowhere far above the sun and blazing streamers lick back toward the sun's surface like prankish backward-movies of a high diver. What elements, astronomers have puzzled, form the corona? Where do the backward-flowing flames come from...
Edith Sitwell (by her own proclamation) has no sense of humor. But all the Sitwells are prankish as hippogriffs. Osbert's impish autobiographical notes in Who's Who are said to freeze the other Sitwells into stoney stares of amusement. All three delight in caressing authors and critics they do not like with their individual or corporate paws. Edith once called a poem of John Masefield's "dead mutton" and Poet Cecil Day Lewis "an electric drill with the electricity left out." She and Osbert presented prizes to "the authors most representative of the tedious literature...
Harold Boyd France, 20. Agile thumbs and 85? had carried them all the way from Florida after MacArthur's uncle, prankish Cinemauthor Charles MacArthur, offered them a trip to California if they got to Manhattan on $2 and wangled free lodging from a top-flight New York hotel. After a week of catch-as-catch-can meals and flophouse nights, the Hotel Astor offered them a room. Said Boyd France to inquiring newshawks: "How vivid a story of our adventure do you want? I got an imagination...