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...Queen High" is respectable, comfortable and fairly amusing. It's just the sort of taking to take your mother to when she visits you for over the weekend. Neither of you will have the opportunity to blush, and the sight of Julia Sanderson again will make your ma-ma recall the first time your father took her to the theater...
...this. But there is one thing you can count on, one that you can be pretty sure of, whatever else you may doubt, he does not read books. He may read other things and do other things, but he does not read books. He is not interested in that sort of life. And what is his attitude toward his college? What does he understand the college to be? I think very largely he claims to regard it as a place of sentimental loyalty, of comradeship, of friendships, and activities, and all features of amiable, pleasant relationships of fun and pleasure...
...Orange Comedy," is an adaptation of Gozzi's play, upon the satirical fairy story plot of which, Gilbert Seldes has imposed all manner of modernism's making it amusing parody of present-day life a sort of "Begger on Horseback" in an antique framework...
...seconds there was silence, except for the sound of the gassoon. A sort of taken-aback silence, as though the company did not quite know what was the correct thing to do in the circumstances. Then, as suddenly as the air had been recognized, the whole crowd joined in heartily, magnificently...
There is a trail of a sort, or rather a choice of many trails, meandering over the low ledges, boulders, and sand of the chimney; it is strenuous climbing in places, but perfectly safe, and one finally emerges on the gentler and smoother upper crest and soon joins a better trail coming from Lone Pine, north of Owen's Lake, crossing the crest at Whitney Pass, and following just below the rim north to the reak, passable for horses when the snow is not took deep in some of the gulches. From here it was a short and easy climb...