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...they didn't do that. Hell no! They let Mr. Dreiser, (Ted Dreiser, as some of his cronies playfully call him), spill a bib-full. And what a bib-full! His hero spent pages and pages in a brothel. Yes, boys, he tells you everything about a brothel. And what he doesn't tell you won't matter. But that's nothing! He can write just as much about other things. Sure he can. You forget Ted was a rewrite man for a New York paper. After the hero lets drown his pregnant sweetheart, not wife, whom he wanted...
...Duke of Rutland rode up. Eventually the little that could be done was done. The Prince caught the night express to London, apparently none the worse for his spill. Encore. A day later Wales hunted in the Melton Mowbray country, this time with the famed Fernie hounds. With the pack at full cry, a very nasty hedge with a ditch on either side had to be taken. Lord Stalbridge, Master of the hunt, rode at the hazard, but suddenly pulled up as his horse showed signs of refusing to take the jump. Not so Edward of Wales. He crouched...
...THIRD SPILL OF SEASON FOR WALES AS HORSE, OH, DEAR, FALLS DEAD...
Sherwood Anderson is not an old man, but he has found life full enough to spill into an autobiography and he has recently written a great book?A Story Teller's Story*; He was born in Ohio, was Sherwood Anderson, of simple people, part Italian. He had a father who delighted in romantic lies and a mother who cared in a detached but positive way for her three sons. Of these early days Sherwood Anderson tells with simplicity and understanding. He draws great characters in his slow, involved, rhythmical way. Yet the greatest character is himself, the artist struggling against...
...Mandarin Shan Tien. Kai Lung was brought to the Mandarin for judgment. "He raised his rebellious voice," remarked the prosecutor unpleasantly. "The usual remedy in such cases ... is strangulation." Everything was ready for the necktie-party, when Kai Lung, previously advised by the Golden Mouse, began to spill a Sheherazade to the noble Mandarin, his initial opus being The Story of Wong Ts'in and the Willow Plate Embellishment. By the time the story was ended it was, of course, too late in the day to execute Kai Lung-and so the days went on-in spite...