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Most of the hilarity centers about a quart bottle of champagne, on which one of the young blades (Mr. Young and one of the ex-fiancées (Estelle Winwood) get unwarrantably but agreeably mellow. Other indignities offered the recent amendment are highballs in the first act, cocktails before the champagne, and a pitcher of some obscure intoxicant in a restaurant scene...
...dinner pails will not be full--they will be empty--but each will be of ten-quart size, and into each, the men, filing past well-stocked counters, will place such things as please their palates--clams, a lobster each, watermelon, coffee in cups specially provided, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco and a pipe. They will then march to the beach which will be the gathering-place for luncheon...
...Laski's offence or offences are not wholly clear to the uninformed reader, but if he had dynamited the Widener Library or stolen a quart of the Lampoon's champagne we should hardly expect a more scathing indictment than the one that Lampy gives...
...quart of water add three quarts of sunlight, and gradually heat to a low temperature. Season to taste, and serve cold...
References; Bastable's "Pub. Finance" IV, ch. 4; Pol. Sc. Quart. IX, 610; Nation IX, 452; Forum XVII, 14; N. A. Rev. vol. 158, pp. 1, 150; Cong...