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...fabulous will-o'-the-wisp, that ultima Thule of all cribbage players, the "29 hand." It is to crib fans what the hole-in-one is to the golfer, the 13-spade hand to the bridge player. . . . Three generations of our family watched and waited for it, in vain, till on a rainy night in the winter of '32, when playing with my husband before the traditional blazing logs, I picked up my hand. After the discard, I held 5D, S, C and Jack H. Tensely, I said: "Careful, now. If you cut me the 5 of hearts...
...people who want ideas with their entertainment. Often they are made from second-rate novels with a purpose. Usually they are bores, frequently they are flops. At their best, class pictures can be as good as We Are Not Alone, which Paul Muni and Flora Robson strove (in vain) to bring to life. Or they may be as bad as Vigil in the Night. Or they may be pedestrian and pretentious like...
...musical youngling was throwing over his counterpoint for Stravinskian grunts & groans. To be caught in public with a pleasant tune was as embarrassing to a composer as to be caught without his pants. Every cacophony known to man was rooted out and set to music. Audiences shivered, but in vain...
...distant Japan, are incomparably closer to us in their attitude toward life and philosophy than our 'Germanic cousins' on the British Isles." But while Germany gained a theory it lost a favorite old slogan: "Gott strafe England!" The argument: "If God, on whom the Germans called in vain 25 years ago was really capable of exercising such a measure of punitive power, He would not have waited till 1940 to punish the British," stated the paper. "In those days the Germans relied too much on the power of higher justice and too little on the holy wrath...
...succeeded him, and the Centinel had become the Sentinel. On June 30, 1863, when Confederate cavalry scouts made their first contact with the Union Army west of Gettysburg, the Sentinel suspended an issue for the only time in its life. Next day the Union forces attacked. After trying in vain to take Cemetery Ridge, on July 4, General Lee retired with the defeated remnants of his army...