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Realize that "George V is the most unassuming Englishman alive, not a snob, and speaker of probably the only unaccented English in the world. He runs with natural ability a job not of his own choosing, which your Brain Trust would bungle in a day. Stretch every American's brain far enough to grasp that the monarchy is a different thing from the man who is King, and that British royalist sentiment has little to do with the blah-haw-haw which selected Englishmen, usually pabliticians, spill through the cigar smoke at Hands-Across-the-Sea dinners...
...speak English. 2) A woman too intelligent not to know she is being made a fool of by her lover and too weak to do anything about it but talk. 3) A nervous bride who wrangles with her mate over nothing on the honeymoon train. 4) A snob who preens herself on her willingness to be nice to colored people. 5) An opportunist who takes advantage of a drunken proposal of marriage. 6) An aging actress sodden with drink and self-pity. 7) A shopgirl famed among her friends for repartee, whose favorite shaft...
...Party (by Ivor Novello, produced by William A. Brady and Samuel F. E. Nirdlinger) is a slice of pure snob entertainment off the heel of the loaf. It projects a party given for a famed young London actress after her opening night: Lora Baxter in distant simulacrum of Tallulah Bankhead. Plot: Miss Baxter inveigles her old lover, now married, into kissing her. His little wife sees the kiss and tries to die by gulping all of what she thinks is Miss Baxter's cocaine. But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion...
...action: Lady Grayston (Constance Bennett), an heiress married to a penniless peer for his title, showing off with loud clothes and reconditioned epigrams; an aging duchess (Violet Kemble-Cooper), jealous of her gigolo (Gilbert Roland) who is making love to Lady Grayston; Thornton Clay (Grant Mitchell), a pee-wee snob trying to behave like a patrician; a U. S. Babbitt (Minor Watson) who gives Lady Grayston checks and stubbornly calls her "girlie"; two as yet undegenerate Americans, Lady Grayton's young sister Bessie and an admirer who has followed her to London. The crisis that brings them all into...
Just to assure readers of the CRIMSON that he was an utter ass, (as well as snob), he added an editor's note to one of the letters received criticizing his article. The letter concluded, "Boston, we agree, is the Hub of the Universe. Everything else is in motion." The editor appended, "And one might add, going around in circles." Of course, to include Germany with its scientific progress, New York, and so on, in a remark of this kind, is conclusive proof that the editor is in harmony with a page from Stephen Leacock's fun book, on which...