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Following, but not to the letter, the stories concocted by Author Booth Tarkington, Penrod (Leon Janney) steals a letter which his sister is writing to an admirer, reads it aloud in lieu of an English composition. He and his friends belong to the In-or-In Club of which Penrod is president. When obliged to initiate a sniveling little teacher's pet, they paddle him till he needs a doctor, slick down his hair so thoroughly with tar that he makes his next appearance with a shaved skull. Penrod and his friend Sam have a fight at a birthday...
...Laval laughed aloud. The little crowd raised the ancient war cry of three French armies, "A Berlin! A Berlin...
...carries on the good only family fond; Babbitt, I., vs. Rousseau et al. You'll enjoy Les Confessions (the English editions are expurgated) along with an apple and a fire on a few could autumn evenings; and when spring rolls around there's La Neuvelle Heloise to be read aloud on the shores of Walden Pond. You'll learn all about conchiliomania (a disease) and how if you get it you're liable to become the father of modern specialization. You'll wish it were a half course; but if you throw together a good thesis and make...
...friendship I never saw him so broken as on that 31st day of January, which I remember as if it were yesterday. I had gone afoot to Hofburg [the Palace in Vienna] contrary to custom, having been ordered to present myself at 11 o'clock to read aloud to the Emperor and Empress. At the gate I saw to my horror, knowing the habits of the Emperor, for whom punctuality meant arriving a quarter of an hour ahead of time, that it was already five minutes past...
Willa Cather's two grandmothers, to whom she read aloud from English classics, and a storekeeping uncle who, an Oxford graduate, taught her Latin, were important aids to her education. Her first writing was for the Lincoln State Journal. After she was graduated from the University of Nebraska, Willa Cather went to Pittsburgh, became dramatic critic on the Leader. Then she tried teaching English at the Allegheny High School, wrote verse in off-hours, published a book of it (April Twilights) in 1903. Famed Editor Samuel Sidney McClure, to whom she sent her first stories, published them, gave...