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...could mix a cocktail as well as the veriest flapper of today. Dancing, as well as hurdling, was a passion with her. And she even hurdled over the tops of society's best ottomans and chairs, to the horror of maids and matrons more restrained than...
...author of Bull Dog Drummond fares only moderately well on the cramped stage of the short story. His happiest efforts are with humor and suspense, as Uncle James's Golf Match-a rib-splitter-and the titular tale of this collection, wherein a murder is averted by the veriest trifle. In other instances, suspense is fool's gold. The nugget of denouement fails to pan out. In still others- The Porterhouse Steak, about a starving but proud war hero; The Film That Never Was Shown, about a proud but starving cinema hero-the virgin clay of emotion appears...
...Johnny Harvard" at the Harvard-Oxford debate, but a parcel of knaves who must not be counted among the members of our righteous Student Body. Whether we sang it or whether we did not sing it, the spirit of "Johnny Harvard" is in our hearts, and none but the veriest hypocrite will try to h'ss down...
Disillusionment is the keynote of the age. History refutes herself, and under the merciless glare of modern research our once-revered idols totter on feet of veriest clay. Mark Twain started the thankless job. Unflinchingly he exposed the Father of our country, showing not only that the magnificent truth about the cherry tree was a sagacious bit of publicity which led directly to the Presidency, but that his supplementary statement that "he could not tell a lie" was even more carefully calculated to preserve his name to perpetuity. Now a beacon-light of politics is shattered when we learn that...
...such an event, perhaps the stigma of being silent is not so great, after all. Certainly there is not much of a fine art in doing what the veriest hod-carrier could do. Yet sometimes, while reading Addison, or Lamb, or Carlyle or Coleridge--or Holmes, there comes the wish that all this knowledge and mental stimulation that is being showered upon Cambridge with virtually every lecture hour could be used with enjoyable results outside of class-rooms and the covers of blue-books. Then really could he who prices himself on his "cleverness" stand or fall on solid merit...