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...dismal parody of Kipling, a delectable burlesque of Oscar Wilde, and a really amusing, if somewhat overdone, page of history with undergraduate notations, push a bit of Chaucer and a rather dull ballad of a questionable source, from the center of the stage. Now Lampy does not snore so loudly. He knows the present best. But Pity of Pities! The clock ticking backwards leads his mind down into chaotic, confused imaginings. We find Diogenes in a humorous vein. Descartes would die all over again, and probably has, at the incoherent paragraph written in his honor. Shades of his Mathematical System...
...snore of the planes gave the spectators a sensation of excitement. A racing plane, with its enormous dual motors, makes a wilder sound than an ordinary plane. Spectators were reported to be so intent as to pay no attention to ad interim announcements of big football games. Yet an airplane race is better to hear than to watch. Some say that they would rather see two fleas racing across a piece of paper than the fastest planes in the world...
...byword: "according to Hoyle." His treatises also include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
...forest clearing outside the town, exhausted Holy Rollers snore under the shrubbery after a night's orgy of insane gesticulation and acrobatics incited by a mouthing, syncopating professional ecstatic. Sid Strunk, the village policeman, ruminates over his breakfast coffee that it is a good thing they have brought reserves from Chattanooga. About 8 o'clock, dusty wagons, gigs, buggies and small automobiles come jogging in along the country roads. In them are gaunt farmers, their wives in gingham and children in overalls, who crowd toward the court house to get seats for the day's proceedings...
...psychology of the situation is very puzzling. Assuming, of course, that he has dire need of sleep, (or else he would not forego listening to the lecture), why does he snore? Is this the result of a complex, a guilty conscience or a bad meal? In any case, were he not to choose such a conspicuous way of rousing himself, we could all sympathize heartily. There is nothing like a good rest now and then with nothing to disturb...