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...stole from the beasts their striped or tawny elegance, he scooped the rock and lived within it. Clothing and architecture developed together like concentric cortices of a springing rod. Architecture is the outer whorl; its fashions make their impress on clothes, the inner. Tailors snip and snip, masons slap on their lime; steeples and toppers affront the sky, eaves overhang, tails droop decorously down. Ingeniously, out of a wide scholarship, Author Heard traces the homologous development of caps and cathedrals, mitres and mosques-15,000 years in a book of 150 pages that scholars will find an interesting tour...
...with their usual small end when being reproduced on the metropolitan stage. This is all natural enough, but in the midst of our indifference we must rise to point out that even Yale men are not as hopelessly namby-pamby as the two undergraduates in the first act who slap, each other on the back and begin all their remarks with "Well, you know, old man".... Messrs. Glibert and Morgan farther removed this dialogue from the sublime by the would-be kittenish manner in which they threw boxing gloves at each other, always taking the greatest pains to miss...
...said that they hoped someday to join the League. Critics who like the Filipino people better than Filipino politicians picture the latter strutting before their constituencies with a New Year rodomondate: "One step more and we shall be a full-fledged member of the family of nations. We shall slap France upon the back, raise our hat to England-with a touch of hauteur to show we are her equal. We can be a trifle patronizing to our late, fortune-fallen master, Spain. As for this overbearing U. S., we shall cut him dead...
Editor Varella, "one of the cleverest duellists living," declared that he intended to go to France, slap Ibanez's face in a public place, force him to duel...
...mean duellist, although "he has never yet succeeded in killing anyone," received the challenge. Said he: "Spanish has always been my people's language, unlike the Habsburg who now sits on the Spanish throne. Varella doesn't need to say in four languages that he will slap my face to induce me to fight. I am ready to meet him at any time...