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Percy Hammond: "Well-behaved rip-snorter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 17, 1923 | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

...Snorter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENN STATE RIDES CREST OF COLLEGE FOTBALL WAVE | 11/3/1920 | See Source »

...informed student of Psychology that here is one of the outcrops of a Freudian repression. The mentality of these marginal annotators, to judge from their manuscript, is somewhat lower than that of the higher Simiidae, and on a level with that of an usher in the movies, an amen-snorter in a Cumberland plateau camp-meeting, or a Dr. Frank Crane. Therefore, in any gathering of civilized men, they are compelled to remain silent, and this for two reasons: first, because they cannot understand the conversation; and second, because their remarks cause rude mirth. Hence their innate longing to criticise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/16/1920 | See Source »

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