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...Covingtons, Albemarles. She comes with a Hollywood director to meet a Hollywood producer and nail the screen role of Velvet O'Toole, the Confederate heroine of the national bestseller Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Prattling and coy, she comes, with a hoopskirt, a guitar and blatant pride of race, smack into the presence of the most brutal wisecrackers and merciless limbchoppers in Yankeedom...
...mannerisms, drawls her own lingo,* spits her own fire. Actress Claire plays her admirably. A terror for house parties in real life, Cindy Lou is the makings of one on the stage. By comparison with Cindy Lou, Playwright Boothe's wisecracking cutthroats are dramatically flat. While they smack balls at one another's heads, Cindy Lou, her toe dug into the baseline, drops unplayable shots at her opponents' feet...
...rushed up and over the dunes to lash even at the Maidstone Country Club on its high bluff, obliterating the golf course and 50 prize flower gardens. Rich summer colonists and poor fisher folk suffered alike. Falling trees crushed the Maidstone Hotel. The Bridgehampton freight station was shunted smack across the tracks...
Thus, 40 years after the event, did Cuba honor the hero who "carried the message to Garcia." To do so, he landed on the Cuban coast in a fishing smack (which was hailed and questioned by a Spanish man-o'-war), traveled on foot across jungled Oriente Province for seven days, until he found General Calixto Garcia, leader of Cuban insurgents, and delivered his oral message (not a letter, Elbert Hubbard to the contrary). The "message" asked General Garcia about the strength of his troops, which were to collaborate with the U. S. Army in fighting Spain. President McKinley...
...Smack! When irresistible force meets immovable body there can be only one result, a cosmic explosion. Last week as just such an explosion seemed about to take place in European affairs-as German demands rushed headlong against Czechoslovak determination-stolid Britain suddenly slipped into the swiftly narrowing gap a dignified cushion: Viscount Runciman...