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Football, baseball, and rowing succumb alike to the hordes that swarm the links and courts. Tennis is revealed to be the favorite sport of 23 per cent of the class, topping by a comfortable margin football, which is favored by only 11 per cent. Football is also superseded in popularity by golf, which, favored by 12 per cent, triumphs by the narrow margin of one point...
...Denial. Claire Windsor is the latest to succumb to the current screen fashion of portraying, in one film, a young girl in her teens, and a woman of 45, thus putting screen art above mere good looks. In her latter manifestation, she dreams herself back to her girlhood stifled by her mother-living again the romance of the Spanish-American War, learning not to cramp her own daughter's style of loving. Lewis Beach's stage play, The Square Peg, here transferred to the screen, has had some of the acrid tang carefully sponged...
...audience. His was the first-and persists the truest-note of realism that the U. S. has heard. "Dullness," he said, "is dear to me." Beside realism as we have it today, that of Howells pales, of course, is called drabness; but at the time, his refusal to succumb to the chivalrous romanticism his contemporaries had inherited from England made him, roughly, the Sinclair Lewis...
...honor last week to announce the marriage of his Hearst's International and his Cosmopolitan magazines. Consummation of the union was set for early in the new year. The International, a feminist bride, will insist for a time on International-Cosmopolitan as the family name, but will later succumb to custom and be of one name as well as one flesh with the Cosmopolitan...
...from Cherbourg. The timorous passengers smiled and rolled across the solid earth upon their sea legs. The timid questioned whether ever again they would go to sea, questioned whether the sea were conquerable, asked in their hearts whether some day or other some such man-made Leviathan might not succumb to the demons of the ancient deep. Indeed, it would be a serious question for the Shipping Board, or any other shipping agency, if one of its great ships should ever sink before the onslaught of the storm...