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...write but you can hear better than you can see. You are accustomed to see with your eyes differently to the way you hear with your ears, and perhaps that is what makes it hard to read my works. . . . Youngsters with the least education get it quicker than those sot in their ways. . . . I have not invented any device, any style, but write in the style that is me. . . . No, no, no, no, it is not all repetition. I always change the words a little." When Miss Stein appeared confused about public affairs, someone asked if she knew Calvin Coolidge...
Judge Priest (Fox). Best shot in this picture: a tippled old juror, in the final courtroom scene, after expectorating an ample supply of tobacco juice loudly and accurately into a spittoon, describing how he contrived to hook the stream around a table leg to reach its mark.* The sot is one of the minor characters who, together with shambling, inarticulate Stepin Fetchit (TIME, March 12), supply most of the comedy relief...
...CRIMSON lauds this toleration on the part of the old city. Psychologists and sociologists of the modern school unite in pointing out the dangers of unsublimated repression. The Back Bay is protected, the Scollay Square sot, and the inquisitive college boys are taken care of Bostonia...
...course it is Johnny Dean who is looked to for the Crimson's only first place. He should easily win the discus throw, and Jack Healey is pretty well sot for second. Just this one event will give Harvard nine points. Dean should pick up another point in the shot. The javelin throw will add three move for John Harvard...
...Metropolitan Opera to retirement, tried a comeback during the introduction of celebrity-guests at the opening of the supper club in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel. In a pause between phrases of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," a coin clattered at her feet, flipped by a sot. Mary Lewis stooped, picked up the coin, finished her song amid tremendous applause...