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...book "Brideshead Revisited" that he did have a brain underneath that fun-and-games exterior. It was a serious study, streaked through with a deeper humor, of much the same sort of people he had had such fun with in his earlier books. Waugh had come of age, one tought...

Author: By John R. W. small, | Title: Satire Gone to Seed | 11/16/1950 | See Source »

...LONG as James Cagney needs a kind but rough and tought diamond to win the girl from Pat O'brien will probably stay at Warner Brothers and make more pictures . . . but Waraner finds him a reliable Irishman for other assignments too... and Warners rescued him from the oblivion he seemed headed for after his smash film debut in Howard Hughes' Front Page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Reliable Irishman | 1/31/1936 | See Source »

...while not necessarily sharing their opinions. In regard to the first, he said, thought can be free as long as it is straight. In regard to the second he declared that the Library was the most important member of the Faculty, in that it was there that the student tought himself. The war, he added, proved that the college men was better than the man who had not been to college at working with other people of different opinions. But the fee of a man's initiation into this tradition, Professor Lake concluded, is his life. "The University takes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN CROWD LIVING ROOM FOR FACULTY RECEPTION | 9/29/1921 | See Source »

...there came the sound of thousands of heavy rain drops on a stiff canvas or like the cracking of innumerable small whips; all this punctuated by a peculiar bizz, bizz, whizz sound like someone whistling in surprise. I could not help making the inward remark, 'I knew war was tought, but look here, boys; isn't this a bit too rough?' It seemed that the Germans had exploded a mine under one of our trenches, then opened a violent fusillade to capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were not required...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/10/1916 | See Source »

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