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...makes every human being precisely what he is. The balance changes during life, making the baby a boy, the boy a youth, the youth a man, the man a dotard. Disease or accident, food or medicine may alter the balance. Then one may be smarter or duller than natural, thinner or fatter, more brave or more backward. A woman with an overactive thyroid is a busybody with a quick pulse, a temperature slightly above normal. She wants to wolf all kinds of food. The doctor may quiet her by dosing her neck with x-rays or the surgeon...
Rules. New football regulations this year are based on the premise that crowds want to watch an open game. Forward passing is favored with a ball an inch thinner than last year. The first incomplete forward pass across the goal line (except on fourth down) no longer causes loss of the ball. The 5-yd. set-back for two incomplete passes in one series of downs has been removed. Because coaches last year decided that the defense had too many advantages, another rule, designed to popularize quick kicks, permits a punter to have a teammate hold the ball in position...
...City last summer, left them there. She returned to New York, bought herself a La Salle limousine, Bergdorf-Goodman clothes, bobbed her hair, took to roller-skating in Central Park. She used to be plump, phlegmatic, frownish about makeup, proud of being oldfashioned. At 27 she is 15 pounds thinner than at 19. Her looks, too, have improved...
...were lost. So Tony came back and married Margaret because she desperately wanted to and he was suffering from "delayed shock." Not for 13 years did Tony see Katha. By 1927 he had given up his business, had begun wandering round the Continent. At Aeaea they met. Katha was thinner. She had been scrubbing floors in a Vienna department store. Poverty had even pawned her body a few times. She could no longer have a baby. But Tony and Katha were together again...
When Robert E. Sherwood used to write movie reviews for Life, his column was pithy, though interspersed with light humor. Of late years, he has turned his hand to writing plays, and in the transition has tempered his with even more finely, while building his plots on material of thinner and thinner texture. "The Queen's Husband," presented at the Plymouth by the American Theatre Society, is another well-received example of the later Sherwood tradition...