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...latest play, "Straight Thru the Door", and was sitting in his dressing room attired in the tuxedo coat and white trousers in which he appeared in his last scene. It really am a rather dry proposition for an interview," he remarked in his quiet way to the scribe who was waiting for him, "but I can at least tell you where I got the basis for my play...
...somewhat of a surprise to us this morning in McKinlock Hall when we gathered in our shoes, placed trustfully outside the door and found them quite unpolished," asserted F. J. Nugee, assistant headmaster of Radley School to a CRIMSON scribe. "Our boots have been getting rather more and more disgraceful since we came to this country. No time and place to have them furbished up, you know...
...Egypt a thin-shanked scribe squatted cross-legged and on a broad sheet of papyrus spread across his lap drew, with brush dipped into ink-the hieroglyphics of his master's discourse. That too was writing...
...more of those first hand coups de maitre of a master wit into the limelight for posterity. Mr. Keezer, who claims to be even more expert in the matter of the philosophy of clothes than Carlyle himself, was pouring over a volume of "Sartor Resartus" when approached by the scribe in his Emporium yesterday. "Lasciate ognisperanza vio chentrate," said the original Mose of second hand clothes by way of greeting, but he was soon turned in the direction of reminiscences...
...into the dressing room he went with the four intimate friends. They and he were greeted warmly as friend. Nothing was said about reporting. In order not to create an "interviewing" atmosphere the scribe took anything but a business-like attitude...