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...fashion distinctions in clothes, both male and female. I find too large a vocabulary -for a virile nation-devoted to distinguish every possible kind of comfort at every hour of the day and night." Most notable increase is in the number of U. S. words and phrases. "However rude or crude" they might be, said Professor Gordon, "they were so expressive, so impudently near the truth, that it was hard to resist them a place in any honest lexicon." U. S. eyes may note examples from Jack London. George Ade, O. Henry, H. L. Mencken, Zane Grey-even so unliterary...
...Sailor (Warner). When, in this picture, a sailor says to Joe E. Brown. ''I ought to cut your throat from ear to ear," another remarks: "Someone's done it already." This rude allusion to Comedian Brown's appearance should please his admirers. So should his efforts to impress a girl who turns out to be the admiral's daughter; his antics when she takes him home to amuse her father and her fiancé, Brown's lieutenant; his attempt to escape by a trellis, which breaks and lets him fall; his eventual departure...
...love and its attendant foibles Poet Gogarty's lighter vein is apt: Only the Lion and the Cock, As Galen says, withstand Love's shock. So, Dearest, do not think me rude If I yield now to lassitude, But sympathise with me. I know You would not have me roar, or crow. When he can manage to subdue his wit something simpler and better emerges: I gaze and gaze when I behold The meadows springing green and gold. I gaze until my mind is naught But wonderful and wordless thought! Till, suddenly, surpassing wit, Spontaneous meadows spring...
...first 45-minute half, the battle was a fierce one. During the 15-minute intermission the Yale men relaxed by sprawling on the field, as was the custom. But, Dr. Conant, exercising authority that has remained with football physicians over since, marched his men into a rude shanty, the first locker room...
...judge from recent developments, it is probable that a concerted movement to abolish April hours will meet with little opposition. Instructors openly admit that only the necessity for returning a grade at April causes them to sanction this rude interruption of their programs. The liberal attitude of University Hall toward the matter is demonstrated by the decision last year to exempt Senior honors candidates at the discretion of course leaders. A slight push by the Student Council might well send the April hours into oblivion, and administer a suitable coup de grace to a bit of red tape outgrown with...