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Just a few days ago the marriage of the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Radcliffe Idler seemed certain. But a villain appeared in the form of a slightly risque play, "The Trojan Horse" by Christopher Morley, which is just what the H.D.C. is looking for. But in this case what is good for the gander is not good for the goose. At least, the goose, subsisting on a very chaste diet, is not allowed to eat the liberal food that the gander likes...
...Trojan Whores. A Russian dispatch from the front last week said that the Germans, unable to force a crossing of an unnamed river, brought up a large number of prostitutes from Hamburg, undressed them, sent them wading in the river opposite the strongest Russian defenses. Simultaneously, the story went, the Germans tried a crossing at another place. The strong Red Army men, said the dispatch, "were not fooled...
...Wound and the Bow takes its title from the legend of Philoctetes, who was first abandoned by the Greeks during the Trojan war because of a noisome, incurable wound, then sought out by them because of his magically invincible bow-symbol of the man of genius as pariah-savior and of the Gordian interdependence of power and neurosis. The two most important pieces in The Wound and the Bow are studies of that symbol in terms of1) Dickens, 2) Kipling...
Short Kick. Archie Wavell was plumb wore out. He had run the Italians out of Libya and East Africa, had had his men run out of Greece and Crete, had sent some mechanized snails into Iraq and Syria. He had worked like a Trojan. One day he would stand on a hill in Eritrea straining his one good eye through a one-barreled glass, peering across at the Eyeties' vulnerabilities; next day he would stir up his field staff in Sidi Barrãni; then he would calm the fears of Egyptian politicians; fly to Crete; visit headquarters...
...perhaps submerges the Isle of Wight or Skye." > A London newsie chalked on his placard "Extra! Return of Loch Ness Monster." > Other professional and amateur British humorists punned at length. Examples: Mein Dekampf, Your Hess is as good as mine, Hess Sir, That's My Baby, Trojan Hess, Hessteria...