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George Bernard Shaw is one of the few men who is just as good as he thinks he is. For although "Candida" is a play of cosier and snugger England, safe from air raids and the Red menace, there is nothing cost or snug or dated about the bearded Fabian's timeless masterpiece. Nor is there anything dated about Cornelia Otis Skinner who looks almost too young for thirty year old Candida...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...birds, insects, small animals, weeds, poets and artists, there exists no snugger sanctuary than "Sarobia," a 175-acre estate in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, on the Delaware River above Philadelphia. "Sarobia's"' gateposts are topped by big black iron cats, and ignorant Bucks County-ites have sometimes whispered that "cat-worshippers" and '"heathens" live on the estate. Actually the owners of the place, whose first names are the basis of its name, are two exceedingly gentle, wellborn Philadelphians. White-haired Robert Restalrig Logan has for 25 years been president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Sarobia | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...there is one thing sweeter; snugger, squeezer, kisser, hugger, than another in this world of love and sunshine, it is going to a college mixed. Smiles, sugar, and soothing-syrup, serenades and sadness, study nothing, go among 'em, everything. The old fashion of "going it alone" is played out for the better one of "going it double." Some may take their education "straight," but as for me, "give me 'mix,' or give me nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

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