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...Ernest. As sodden and pale as a 10?-portion of mashed potatoes is this musical comedy adaptation of Oscar Wilde's gay farce The Importance of Being Earnest. Wildian epigrams frolic beside such lines as "My Rolls is waiting; so is my coffee." Sometimes the dancing is agreeable...
...CRIMSON. For eight innings Bob Lampoon, diminutive southpaw, ruled supreme from the eminence of the mound which has witnessed so many of his former disastrous attempts to practice the mysterious art of twirling a horse hide pellet. For eight innings CRIMSON runners could make no progress on the sodden base paths of the Soldiers Field diamond. Then the storm broke. CRIMSON fury burst forth with all the tremendous energy of a roused Titan tearing in shreds the bond cast about him by the hands of a pigmy tribe. It even went back and gathered force from the disappointing (though courteous...
...suspicion the brown terrain, the fog-filled, dingy air. "Half a mile from London, sir," replied the pilot courteously. Upon this information, the goggled person, a passenger recently embarked at Brussels, began a series of unpleasant antics, striking his fist against the side of the plane, cursing in a sodden voice, and stamping on the ground. He had wanted, it appeared, to go to Paris. At the Brussels Aerodrome, four planes had been leaving simultaneously for London, Brussels, Cologne, and Paris. He had simply gotten the wrong one. Becoming calmer, he exhibited a ticket-"Brussels to Paris." Then, actually...
Once upon a time (6th century) Welsh harpers cast their harps into the River Conway, dived in themselves, swam, towed, hauled out their harps upon the further shore, plucked manfully but inaudibly at sodden strings. Followed a troop of Welsh singers. Having swum the Conway they sang no better and no worse than before. Prince Maelgwn Gwynedd of North Wales, thereupon welcomed the singers to the first recorded Welsh Eisteddfod, heaped their palms with gold, banished his harpers, proclaimed the confirmation through "trial by water" of his pet theory: that song is superior to instrumental music. Since then the Eisteddfod...
...long Will Tilden, these five years kingpin of terrestrial tennis, there was little gaiety in him that evening. It was the third successive time this summer that Richards had trounced him. In the match that afternoon, Tilden's stroking had been sodden and erratic; now frantic, now listless. After a week of brilliance, he had had a sorry relapse, which even the time-worn expedient of playing in his. sock feet to absorb, Anteus-like, some grip and vigor from the moist earth, had failed to dispel. Richards had pressed matters with even fury, dancing securely on his spikes...