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...generation plays are falling into the category of popular songs; they all remind you of something that was published last year under another title. Accordingly, The Best People displays its youth (brother and sister) immoderately bored with their own expensive section of humanity. Sister is engaged to the silliest ass English Lord that has been dragged up from antiquity and dusted off with modern slang in quite a period. Brother has set his heart on a dumb-but-honest chorus girl...
...okapi is about the size of a large stag, but hornless. Its head tapers to a point, its lips are soft and flexible, which indicates that it feeds upon foliage. In its upper jaw it has no teeth. Its tail resembles that of an ass. The coloring of the okapi is remarkable; cheeks and jaws are yellowish-white; forehead and muzzle chestnut red; large, ass-like ears red fringed with black. The neck, shoulders, barrel and back vary from sepia and black to deep red; the belly is blackish; the tail bright red with a black tuft. The hind quarters...
...deplore the circulation of these rumors, because they tend to arouse religious intolerance. . . . If there is any substantial num-ber of American citizens who believe this amusing but absurd story about the one-dollar greenback, what a field they would offer for Samson and his jawbone of an ass! In the Bible it is recorded (Judges XV, 15) that Samson "found a new jawbone of an ass and put forth his hand and took it and slew a thousand men therewith...
...What a spectacle have we be- held upon the European stage?as Shakespeare said in Hamlet?' then came each actor on his ass.' . It is not fair to mislead the American people. We must realize that at best, with the present obstacles to European economic regeneration, the establishment of European markets will be a long and difficult task...
...Only women who will promise to " obey " can be church-married. The Tenth Commandment also remains intact. It still reads: "Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is his." Miss Maude Royden, persistent feminist agitator, endeavored to have "wife " eliminated. " Women dislike to be categoried with a man's ox or his ass...