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...said, they have suffered to pass a frank sex drama based on one of the social milieu's unloveliest tragedies. It is a tense, well-constructed play, dealing with the plight of an Urning among men. The girl struggles against a homosexual compulsion with all the vigor of human will, only to succumb inevitably to her own nature, consumed entirely by Lesbian fires. Men, uncomprehending, fail to help her to escape from herself. She must return to her own. Perhaps the play's weakness lies in just the same misfortune; that men and women of the audience find...
...year, not including soap, tooth paste and pencils; and, "the school body dresses plainly and simply." 2) The College needed, badly, a new dictionary. Meeting at Little Rock, the American Legion of Arkansas was aroused by a vigilant patriot, to whom Commonwealth's continued vigor could mean but one thing, with news that the College was heavily subsidized by the I. W. W. and even redder Reds. The patriot, however, was found ignorant of the fact that Commonwealth was founded, with the endorsement of leading Arkansas politicians and others, including Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota...
...Yard is at last cloistered. Unless one lives in the buildings which do the cloistering he is remote from all those attributes of worldliness which make Harvard Square--Harvard Square. The buildings of the School of Business Administration face the freshman dormitories with sufficient aggressiveness and vigor, and allow him who would decry over-emphasis on brick the pleasure of gazing upon pastry facades in stucco. And what is more to the point, the seniors who would rest their worried heads on goodly hair mattresses may do so at the expense of the University. Ring out, ye bells (and there...
When he reached 80, his friends and relatives were amazed at the continued clarity and vigor of his mind. His bristly sideburns were pure white; wrinkles had deepened and his gold-barred spectacles were made of thicker glass. But he would not reminisce, dodder or preach plaintively like an ordinary old man. "With him," they said, "it is always the next month, the next year, the future of humanity...
...Mussolini . . . Aug. 5, 1903. Last week an itinerant newsgatherer unearthed this autograph, sent news of it humming over the cables. Signor Mussolini's intimates, not displeased, reminded his detractors that even as a bricklayer and before that as a hod-carrier, the young Benito revealed the titanic spiritual vigor which later made him master of Italy. Few are possessed of so little "hindsight" that they cannot detect the hand of the present Dictator in a letter which the hodman wrote to a fellow laborer on Sept. 3, 1902. "Dear Friend, "On Saturday, together with a painter out of employment...