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...What generation American are you?" rather abruptly asks another section of the questionnaire, followed by another parenthetical remark couched in tutoring school terms: "(Count yourself...
...would be nice to be struck by lightning while reading the Bible. He said he would rather bury someone than marry him. Frightened and distressed at this cheery conversation, Eleanor and her sister were even more put out when their father, desiring to warn them against sin, would remark dolefully that he would rather see them in their grave than doing any one of a great number of things- using rouge, receiving the attentions of boys, kissing, being bad generally. Finally they came to believe that their father would rather see them in their grave than doing anything. They studied...
...monumental biography Mr. Damon quotes the remark of Elsie Sergeant: "Amy Lowell was a dynasty in herself." To the reader who has won his way through the more than 700 large and closely-written pages of the volume this observation will seem no exaggeration. He will see that it was incumbent on the biographer of Amy Lowell to write the history of a literary epoch. The full measure of literary and especially poetical activity in the United States between 1912 and 1925 will have been borne in upon him and probably will have astonished him. For this...
...able to read in clear, concise, pithy phraseology of world events, even if the events themselves be of muddled nature, is very satisfying. The succinct remark about Miss MacDonald's tooth acting and the holocaust of letters it involved was most cheering...
...have never met General Hugh Johnson," wrote Mr. Pegler, "so I don't think I can be accused of log-rolling or back-scratching when I remark that 'Old Iron' pants,' as the boys used to call him around the NRA, is turning out a really good newspaper column these days. This is a bit of a surprise. . . . Whenever it was that Old Ironpants made his first attempt at this line of work, he seemed to be writing with his elbows, and apparently didn't have what it takes...