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...over the world by drinking a glass of it to celebrate his victory. Came a night when he was the guest at a supper in the Savoy Hotel, London, at which Loie Fuller, dancer, and Mme. Yvette Guilbert performed for him as if he were royalty. Where another would thump his chest in robust braggadocio, he speaks with a sly wink and a deprecating gesture, for he wants the reader to understand that Corbett was a prize-fighter who wore a gardenia in his buttonhole...
...trashy tale of scrambled emotions that all turned out to be a dream. Possibly the playwright can be pardoned some of the incoherence because it was a dream. She probably will not be pardoned. Sorrowing mother, dancing children, shots and harlotry-all the old devices of the thriller thump their weary way across the stage. All this to prove that existence in the country is safer than existence in the city. Miss Rambeau gave a generally distinctive performance which only served to impress upon the audience the skinny values of the play...
Thanksgiving Day in the Missouri Valley was punctuated by a loud, solid thump administered by Missouri to Kansas. The Missouri backfield selected the third period for two plunging touchdowns. In the fourth period, Kansas passes soared menacingly but were cut down with precision. The score, Missouri 14, Kansas 0, left Nebraska no room for argument with Missouri over the Valley title...
...first this young woman (a music teacher) is gauche, inept, stumbling amid polished floors and brilliant conversation. Astonishingly she sprouts wings. One talk with an aesthetic artist, and she decides to liberate her soul with a thump on the keyboard. She tosses off her inhibitions and a Chopin scherzo simultaneously. Result?she walks off with the fascinated Willie from under the very nose of a voluptuous vampire. It is a tribute to the power of ten-finger exercises...
Saturday's contest has convinced Coach Slattery that there will be a real thump in his batting order this season. He was pleased to see the newcomers in the line-up, Todd, Slayton, Cheek, and Campbell, come through at the bat, and he expects that the veterans will get into their stride this week...