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...play could have been written by a man who wasn't even married, let alone a perceptive playwright. Far from displaying any pervasive insight, The Fourposter, for all its details, doesn't provide one new kind of stage glance on the wife's part, one unhackneyed snort by the husband...
...game of cricket, philosophically considered, is a standing panegyric on the English character; none but an orderly and sensible race of people would so amuse themselves." So wrote the good Reverend James Pycroft in 1851; but the American reader may be pardoned, a snort of derision at the phrase "orderly and sensible." Compared to a simple two-and-a-half hour baseball game, a typical three-day cricket match, hedged about with centuries of tradition, does seem far from sensible. The Englishman can only insist that the game is really perfectly rational (if you ignore...
...Snort of Horse. The case was not unique. During the past year, authorities have become aware of a tremendous and frightening spread of narcotic addiction among teenagers. In one New York court alone, during 1949, there were 41 narcotics arrests of youths between 16 and 18; in 1950 the figure jumped to 161. And there is no telling how many others are using narcotics. One Manhattan welfare worker guessed: "Thousands...
...addicts learn and change hophead jargon. They call a needle and a syringe a "spike & dripper." A sniff of heroin is a "snort of horse," and an injection under the skin a "joy pop." Many teen-agers quickly become "mainliners" -because it is cheaper and quicker if they inject the drug directly into a vein, most often with a safety pin and an eyedropper...
...Brandywine Stable's Greek Song, which won the $50,000-added Arlington Classic in Chicago by a short snort from Alfred Vanderbilt's filly, Bed o' Roses, running the mile-and-a-quarter...