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...sketch in which a loyal family on relief cheerfully dresses in newspapers, eats a table top, sympathizes with the "starving Russians...
...what strikes me particularly is that the purpose of the whole publication seems to have missed fire. I remember reading in Mark Twain's Sketch Book not long ago a most gruesome (to the unsound of wit) story about "My Bloody Massacre." Briefly, it describes how Mark Twain wrote under the guise of a murder story a biting satire about a certain person, but no one who read the paper paid any attention to the little details that showed what a great fiction it all was As I remember one bit: "Gosh, Jim, he scalped his wife and b'iled...
...directors of the film have chosen to make it a character sketch of a remarkable person and have been surprisingly successful in attaining their goal. It would have been impossible with another actor but Conrad Veidt gives the most convincing performance of a man undergoing a great mental change that we have over seen. He proves himself to be one of the foremost artists. it is unfortunate that he has not been cast in films of wider distribution...
Last year's issue, edited almost entirely by James W. Tower '35, included stories of House dances and sports as well as a character sketch of the House Master Julian L. Coolidge...
...words Shakespeare ever used. The word "love" which the Elizabethan found 2,559 occasions to mention took days and days of special work. Each locality mentioned in Shakespeare's plays and poems was carefully described. A biography of each historical character was written and a sketch of the origins of each fictitious one. The Dukes of Bedford and Beaufort made particular trouble because Shakespeare referred to several without bothering to distinguish between them. Summarized were all the scholarly comments on every disputed passage, and the Baconian theory was exhaustively surveyed...