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...critical oracles, aged Philip Hale of the Boston Herald or H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker of the Transcript. Gnomelike Critic Parker thought "this Second Rhapsody seemed tempered and in degree de-natured by reflection and manipulation. It sounded over-often from the study-table and the piano-rack." Said Critic Hale: "The music has decided individuality, which, it is to be hoped. Mr. Gershwin will preserve, and not be frightened into the smug respectability approved by professors of music and easily shocked conservative hearers...
They went down to lunch, Alfonso much put out by the fact that their private dining room was the former billiard room of the hotel with the cue rack still in the corner. They ate wild strawberries and cream...
...Half way to his Rapidan camp for the weekend, President Hoover ordered his car stopped for a picnic luncheon. Over a seven-rail fence the President helped his guests, then followed in two steps. Sandwiches and drinks were brought from the trunk rack, spread under big Virginia oaks. Motorists paused along the highway, gaped at their President having...
...grads who moan about the Stanford rough of the good old days might do well to rack their brains and decide whether the rough of naughty-naught was as hard-boiled as some of Mexico's sophomores...
...were among 2,513 entries for the Westminster Kennel Club show. It was, as always, an event important for its social as well as its sporting aspects; along the street outside the Garden were parked expensive foreign cars which had been used, with a crate strapped on the trunk rack, for dog transportation. Inside, in the carpeted rings, amid the overpowering stench of the disinfectants that are used to prevent the epidemics of distemper that so often get started at shows, famed and valuable dogs paraded, were judged, awarded, and clapped...