Word: uneventfullness
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Maybe it sounds a little uneventful, but try and tell that to any self-respecting manager and see what happens. Nurtured by a competition, especially in the more popular sports, which is every bit as terrifying as Crimson Competitions used to be, these habitues of the tennis shoe and the...
Frank taught Mencken how to bite enemies in what Mencken calls the "caboose." Then Frank nearly blew up after trying to eat ten bushels of oats, and young Mencken joined the Y.M.C.A. There he learned to distrust "Christian endeavor in all its forms" and moved hastily on to Baltimore Polytechnic...
Russian Revolution. With his four turn-of-the-century plays-The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard-Anton Chekhov, a tuberculous Russian doctor, quietly effected a revolution in the theater. Tossing out the well-made play with a cast-iron plot, he substituted a fluid, unemphatic...
"Except for the time when we were mistakenly attacked by a British war plane while flying across Africa, the trip here was uneventful," he said.
His name was John L. Severance, but his role in Cleveland was Lorenzo de' Medici's. A bearded, bespectacled man of placid temperament and steady habits who had inherited a vast fortune from his father, Standard Oil's Louis H. Severance, he made up for an otherwise...