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...Significance. The only significance is: you will absolutely spoil this delightful bit of whimsy if you go looking for any. It is told with all the round-eyed solemnity of a child's tale, and it was never meant to be analyzed or explained. Where the substance of the same author's Lady into Fox (TIME, Apr. 14, 1923) was fantasy, this is satire, deft and charming. Only, if you make the fatal mistake of trying to find out what it means, you will prick the bubble. For it means nothing at all and is a delight for just that...
Unhappily there is, within this warlike island; another party, whose outcries sound strangely familiar. These excited folk insist on making their new Republic "100 per cent French." Already there are more than 10 per cent of foreigners, mostly Americans, who spoil all the walters with their ill-proportioned tips, and all the landladies with regular payments. Almost as bad, "American is the language most commonly and most vociferously spoken" in the cafes and restaurants. In view of these outrages, the Isle Saint Louis proposes to appeal to the League of Nations. Americans who may visit Paris in the near future...
...intend to spoil "Mistress Wilding" by retailing the plot, which as we have implied, is little less than the whole thing. The story holds one's attention; one is impelled to find out just how the daring Anthony Wilding escapes from the web that most of the other characters busy themselves spinning around him. And many of the figures do not lack color. Wilding himself, and his trusty companion Nick Trenchard are well-painted, having both form and substance to a commendable degree. The female characters can hardly be so favorably described. The heroine, Mistress Wilding, is rather a plaster...
...Those who say Harvard isn't irreligious miss the whole point. Nothing is more entertaining than shocking the casual observer or the ignorant outsider, and the well-meaning people who make excuses for "godless Harvard" and try to point out that it really isn't godless at all simply spoil...
...last goal was also made by the around-the-goal route, and this time the expected pass materialized. The men in front of the net, however, were neither able to spoil Wright's gift, or to block the scoring shot which Westman drove between their legs...