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...clerk, worked ten hours a day. Nauseated with romanticism, he wrote a thousand words daily, part of a projected scheme of novels which would neither gild lilies nor avoid dung. Naturalism was being born. Literature should be scientifically aware of inheritance & environment. He would make his mellifluous name resound on the boulevards, the back alleys...
Stores were the first to be closed, and then by a little judicious use of his authority and skillful tactics a traffic tangle was created that made the Westwood welkin resound with horns for the rest of the day. An ice cream truck soon had its cargo disappear down the gutters. A wedding party was held up and only escaped after two hours delay. So confident in his success did Mr. Meyer become that he did not hesitate to give his wife a summons for Sunday driving. Before the irate Justice was placated the police force...
...lighter diversions of mankind, and there is nothing for it but to read the bluebooks as they are handed in, let them read in silence; let open mirth be restrained until the last victim has been led from the scene, and then let the rafters resound with Jovian laughter over the mistakes of mortals...
...very dreary. In goes on for hours and hours and then it gets worse. Strange manifestations pile up. Lights flicker, screams resound, bodies pop up everywhere, Hymns are sung off stage, the bodies that have popped up disappear, and then what do you suppose? It all turns out to be a mean fraud staged by the wicked silk smugglers to scare people away from the scene of their activities. Mercy, we were nonplussed...
...beautiful brute. Basil Sidney, who played Hamlet in modern clothes first for Manhattan, acted the tamer ably, though he appeared a trifle over-conscious of his bigness, beauty, brutality. Mary Ellis, the shrew, battled gamely and gave in irresistibly. Their troupe is excellent and the laughs resound, particularly from those who think Shakespeare highbrow. Among the modern accessories: a carpet sweeper, short skirts, silk hats, goggles, a radio, an electric heater, revolver shots, an automobile, a flashlight photograph...