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At Halle, Germany, the cynosure of a field hockey game between two women's clubs was a handsome, skilful creature who tended goal for the winning side. Play over, this goalkeeper was discovered to be no woman, but a prominent local sportsman dressed up in skirts, wig, etc. The sportsman...
MANY MINDS-Carl Van Doren-Knopf ($2.50). In this new volume of critical essays, Mr. Van Doren again applies a skilful scalpel to his literary contemporaries. The very titles of the chapters are a triumph: Smartness and Light, for H. L. Mencken; Youth and Wings, for Edna St. Vincent Millay...
The Harvard puck-chasers showed a lack of coordination in front of the enemy's goal, whereas three of the four Green scores came as the result of skilful passing. The latter's first goal, however, which came early in the second period with the score 3-0 in favor...
The Plan itself, with its mere repetition of well-known ideas and proposals has been a disappointment to many who expected something inspiring, something really constructive, especially in view of the huge prize offered. Its opponents have not been slow to label the whole contest as "one of the most...
"It is not a book of literary critism but," he says, "something much less skilful and much more important--an attempt to probe those disturbances and ecstasies that engender literature."