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...arrived late for my next class. Since that time, when feeling particularly optimistic. I have tried these gorgeous white elephants, but always with the same result. My handkerchief is somewhat small for a towel and I should like to recommend that these machines be turned over in Margery wherewith in frighten visitors to her seances, and some plebeian towels be substituted in their stead. Gurdon S. Howe...
...their Broadway pleasure palaces; recalled ruses, disguises, trickery resorted to by the genial Woollcott to deceive the Messrs. Shubert and slip in unperceived; recalled the waning of that feud, a reconciliation and Critic Woollcott's presence again regularly gracing an aisle seat whenever the Messrs. Shubert had something new wherewith to beguile the public in its idle hours...
Babbitt. The great American legion that calls George Follansbee Babbitt friend will hardly recognize his familiar figure as a skeleton, stripped of most of the flesh and blood wherewith Sinclair Lewis endowed him, strung about with a few chunks of cinematic laughter-bait, dangled rakishly by Director Beaumont inside the standard triangle frame. Corporeal flesh the producers could and did obtain, in the not unconvincing shape of fat Willard Louis, hitherto unknown. But of spiritual tegument the scenario had none. For obvious reasons, Tanis Judique, middle aged and harmless in the novel, was sent to the boudoir and brought...
...same token, Irene despised the flesh. Her father's memory was an abomination-not less so since her sister was every inch his daughter. She made her prayers with the passion wherewith they loved...
...time to eat. (This bit of sarcasm will probably be taken over by Lenin for propaganda work, in which case we will promptly claim a fitting reward). But we digress. In fine, the nub of the matter is this: Russian women have taken up smoking as a means wherewith to assuage their hunger. And in the first flush of enthusiasm they have broadcasted the news to an astounded world...