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...less clever, more loud, bawdy, vulgar and-to people who like that sort of thing-vastly more entertaining than a Times Square revue could ever be, for the revue is not native while the night club is- even in a theatre. It has the perfection of a weed that grows unashamedly where Nature intended. It has the dignity of a hoyden who scorns the hypocrisy of petticoats. Undoubtedly, it lacks refinement and many another virtue. "Honestly, Tex," says a stage policeman along in the second act, "don't you think virtue pays?" To which the Soul of Candor replies...
...Weed, Chairman, Miss Dorothy Tebbetts; N. H. Barker, Mrs. N. H. Barker; G. W. Bowen, Mrs. G. W. Bowen; F. F. Collier, Jr., Miss Gertrude Bancroft; R. M. Henschen, Miss Margaret Roe; D. A. Holmes, Miss Frances Brown; A. D. MacNutt, Miss Dorothy Warfield; William Sever, Miss Theodoras Smith...
...might have been the remark of an imbecile or an ignoramus who hated professors. The second formed the prelude to a portion of the speech in which II Duce dealt with the widespread rumor that his police are a veritable tsar's cheka. He said: "It was necessary to weed out police, especially the plain clothes police. . . . When police are in plain clothes and have not the check of uniform they must be composed of picked men-zealous and silent citizens...
...decayed. Toads had nosed their way in. Idly, aimlessly, the swaying shawl swung to and fro. . . . Poppies sowed themselves among the dahlias; the lawn waved with long grass; giant artichokes towered among roses; a fringed carnation flowered among the cabbages; while the gentle tapping of a weed at the window had become, on winters' nights, a drumming from sturdy trees and thorned briers which made the whole room green in summer...
...their final form: Editorial Board, A.F. Pavenstedt chairman, D. E. Shoene-Rene, H. M. Parker, R. D. Williams, E. C. Dieckerhoff; board, J.P. Barnes, R. M. Clements, J. G. Chandler, Robert Cushman Jr., Philip Donham, P. M. Dunham, P. M. Easton, M. W. McNear, Abbot Peterson Jr., A. W. Weed...