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With a low percentage of bad puns, sternly denying himself more than an occasional nibble at his favorite whimsy-pastry, in Swiss Family Manhattan Christopher Morley has written a satire that is so mild-mannered, so good-natured there is no sting...
...Brooklyn, Thomas Prendergast, while driving his car, felt a sting on his nose. His nose began to bleed, would not stop. Thomas Prendergast drove to a hospital. While a doctor was examining him he coughed, spat out a bullet...
...Gibbs McAdoo, null Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury and Director-General of Railways, published his autobiography Crowded Years* Politically minded readers thumbed through it to see what this Democrat would say about the man who later became a Republican President. They found two mentions each with a sting...
That the Harvard-Holy Cross Game this Saturday is regarded as one of the best contests in the East is evidenced by the fact that 50,000 tickets had been sold last night, with every indication that the game will be a complete sellout. Still smarting under the sting of last year's humiliating 27 to 0 defeat. Harvard is forgetting Yale for the moment and concentrating on the Crusaders with all the power it can command. Reports from Worcester have it that Phil O'Conncil and his hard-driving eleven are equally determined to duplicate last year's flasco...
...Pollock discussed the modern drama in general, slipping easily from anecdote to fact, and from fact to fiction. He went to lengths to denounce the decadence, immorality and sophistication of the theatre. Some of the dramatists who felt the sting of his rhetoric were O'Neill, Phillip Barry, Neel Coward and Pirandello. Shakespeare, being, fortunately, of another age, escaped. Pollock, opposed to "photographic realism," crusades for virtue, idealism, sentimentalism and the "Glory and Romance of everyday life." Certainly he has realized these aims in his plays, particularly "The Fool," "The Enemy" and his latest, "The House Beautiful," which opens next...