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...Lodging for the Night. Helga is a handsome, smiling seven-year-old with dancing blue eyes, braided hair, and a rag doll which she swung gaily by its feet as we talked. She told me she was from Lehnin and her father & mother were waiting in the dark hall outside. Herr Arnold finally appeared-a hunchback under five feet tall. His brown, leathery face pursed up with a wry grin as he explained his prosaic cause for flight. He had idly signed a petition for the re-election of the local mayor. After a new mayor was elected, Arnold...
...begun as an ordinary "rag" (prank)-the sort that Cambridge students have been playing for centuries. Before the night was through, reported the Vice Chancellor, "undergraduates, in disorderly mobs, often several hundred strong, surged about the streets intent upon doing damage ... In Petty Cury they overturned and seriously damaged a car, regardless of the presence of a woman inside . . . On King's Parade, they damaged [another] car, crumpling its bonnet...
...rest of the story, you can print anything in our rag that you so desire just so long as you don't make up anything more that will get me in trouble with the law. I'm as good a scape-goat as any, and you can probably invent some pretty fine stories. Send the clippings to me when you print them for my scrapbook if you would be so kind. I would like you to print this letter if you want to but print it in its entirely and don't, please, add any little inventions of your...
Beaten to a Rag. At the end of each year, Q would give one final party. A whole crowd of students and fellows would escort him to the station, and there, with great ceremony, bid him goodbye. Then, "beaten to a rag with this term's work," Q would set out for Cornwall-to a plain house, "indeed, very much like a house a child draws on a slate." There he would write his essays, or work on the new edition of the famed Oxford Book of English Verse, or supervise regattas in the uniform of a yacht club...
...purposes, there are plenty of occasions for songs and production numbers, cued in more or less naturally. 'Boys & girls bicycle to a picnic under leafy shade and sing about it en route; Billy De Wolfe sings At the Nickelodeon; Pearl Bailey clears away dishes or flicks a dust rag at a bannister while she chaws out a couple of songs...