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...failure in feeling was noticed by the earliest critics of Shaw. William Archer said of his characters that instead of blood "a kind of sour whey" flowed in their veins. The fact is that anger and indignation-the most intellectual of our emotions-were alone portrayed successfully; the laughing anger of Shaw must be compared to Voltaire's. The brief poetical passages in John Bull's Other Island are the poorest sentimentality; even the saintly figure of Father Keegan in that play occasionally arouses shyness. In St. Joan the pathos is commonplace and the mysticism embarrassing. Shaw hardly...
...stick to our class there is no reason whey Harvard won't get its reasonable share of victories. We played some games out of our class this year and Cornell, Dartmouth, and Brown came up with the strongest teams they have had for some time...
...devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair...
...world's greatest port, the world's greatest tourist attraction, the world's greatest manufacturing city and the world's greatest marketplace. Between the Battery and the Harlem River it is possible to buy anything from a ton of powdered whey to an ounce of marijuana; both bees and locomotives are on sale within a stone's throw of City Hall...
...Titus Moody (Parker Fennelly) is a whey-voiced, ding-this-and-dang-that farmer with a wit hot off the general-store stove. Is his wife happy? "I don't pry into her business none." Titus' farm is "somethin' like Communism. Nobody's got nothin', but everybody's workin'." Does he like the radio? "I don't hold with furniture that talks." Titus is anemic. If cut, he will not bleed; the wound will only "hiss and pucker." Says Allen: "Titus will be getting better when the other characters have dried...