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...poisonous antics of these pests of cinema & stage have never been more adequately or rib splittingly described...
...democratic nations in that (1 only property holders were permitted to vote, 2 only members of the Communist Party were given the vote, 3 very few Russians exercised their new right to vote, 4 in almost no case was there more than one nominee for the elective job, 5 rib names of candidates appeared on the ballots...
Only one member of the squad will be out of the lineup because of injuries. Ralph Plumb, veteran halfback, has not yet recovered from a rib injury received in one of the first practices. The Sophomores have shown up so well in this week's practice that only three letter-men will be included in the starting lineup...
...Holland, when a sickly virgin of 15, was persuaded in the winter of 1395 to rise from her sickbed and go skating upon the ice. No sooner had she ventured out on her runners than a rude young woman crashed into her, knocked her flat and broke her rib. "With unimaginable wailing of virgins," St. Lydwina was carried back to bed where she remained for the next 38 years in constant agony, relieved only by angelic visions...
Like her autobiography, Masks was aimed nowhere in particular but hits the shopgirl public right under the fifth rib. Even Publisher Button describes the story as "pure romance." If Masks had been published anonymously, readers could have deduced that its author had led a sheltered life but had not been sufficiently protected from far-fetched fiction of the baser sort. Rewritten into cinemantics, it might be palmed off as Art, but it would need a Garbo to complete the illusion...