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...character--perhaps the post--is an incongruous philosopher who talks a Latinized American appropriate to the name of Umfraville. The three together, and occasionally this incidental fourth work out their lives in studied contemplation. Every act is done "off-stage" the poet chooses only moment of inner conflict to array upon his stage of words; and yet he offers clues to imagination for the rest that give if life. Prolixity at time intrudes; and his inordinate concern for their domestic trivialities is sometimes tedious and a bit absurd--bathos, perhaps. Consider Gabrielle's expostulating with the guest at breakfast...
...associated with lawn tennis for a number of years. And appropriately so, for in no other amateur sport has there been the amount of international competition that has featured tennis in recent seasons. Davis Cup contests, the entry of American players in various European national championships and the reciprocal array of European and Australian stars in the American titular events have been of almost annual occurrence...
...latest tennis star to arrive in America seeking the Davis Cup is Masamosuke Fukuda, of the Japanese team. Fukuda, recent graduate of Waseda University, is described as a " sensation" on the courts of the Orient. His euphonious name completes an exotic array of players who will contend in the Davis Cup lists this year. The following are culled from the rosters of the French, Indian and Japanese teams: Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra, Lacoste, Fyzee Ramaswami, Ranga Rao, Jaga, Mohan Lai, Zenzo Shimidzu...
...advertising, lacked finesse but was effective. Its value lay in its being the "biggest thing on earth". Now when every vantage place is plastered with bill posters, when bill boards are lighted, the lights colored and flashing, each advertisement is lost in the glare and dazzle of the whole array. Every novelty in noise and color has been exploited, until the buyer's eyes and ears have been exhausted by the massed attack...
...book, and its serial predecessors in "The Baseball Nine Books," as a series of trenchant treatises on scholastic morality. The scrivener to whom the beginnings of the series are ascribed is Christy Mathewson. His titles read: Pitcher Pollock, Catcher Craig, First Base Faulkner, Second Base Sloan. The array leads one to anticipate Shortstop Sutphen, Left Fielder Lumley, Center Fielder Cathcart and Right Fielder Rabinowitz...