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There were the usual Occidental eccentrics - British Miss Roder, who spent most of her time washing off Chinese contamination in boracic acid; American Mrs. Sedley, who believed she was "the nymph of the spring" and danced around a water hole in nightgown and flowers, crying: "Evoe! Evoe! Dionysus, Dionysus...
...legal counsel, albeit unwittingly, draws them both in his voluble indignation. First an incredulous gallery is asked to believe that the Church authorities, through the period of Mr. Solomon's most brazen publicity, were solemnly unaware that the Cotton Club was aught but "an athletic and social organization." Amelia Sedley would have crossed her fingers at this, but when the counsel brightly interpolates that the Church, although a Boston incorporation, did not even know who was occupying their property, one suddenly feels that all bounds have been passed...
...Selections from Butler, Dorset, and Sedley," Professor Greenough, Sever...
...Selections from Butler, Dorset, and Sedley," Professor Greenough, Sever...
These volumes are supplemented by a small but choice shelf-full of about 100 original quarto plays by Addison, Cibber, Congreve, Davenport, Dryden, Ford, Gay, Killigrew, Lee, Massinger, Minshull, Sedley, Sheridan, Steele, and other writers of lesser importance...