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...occupied by subjects from the Apocalypse, while two show groups of persons gazing toward Christ the Judge. In the Apocalypse spaces there is a bottom band on which animals are painted in pairs facing a tree on a red background. Only three pairs remain: " Reynder and Ro; Wild Ass and Tarn Ass; Dromedary and Kameyl." Some of the Abbey pictures were painted in the time of Edward the Confessor (1050), some in that of Richard II (1377), probably by brothers of the monastic orders...
...Mencken carries on his abuse against Rotary much longer, Public Opinion may proclaim him a bully-or, to use his language-a cad, a double-barreled ass, a poltroon...
...names are all lumped together--by a writer in the "Transcript" as "that painful figure--the college boy." The same philosopher concludes his dissertation by advising us that the sooner we accept with "strong humility" Thackeray's dictum that at twenty-one a boy is an ass; the sooner we can resume our high ambition of becoming great and useful men and "shaking a loose and happy leg as sixty." A critic in New York declares the life of the average college man to be largely the result of his environment, the influence divided into 5 percent the college...
...have played football, and have competed on the track in all events ranging from the 220-yard dash to the two-mile run. I have run, like an imposing ass, mile after mile until it seemed that the heart must beat itself to pieces in the weary body. While I must admit that there was more or less fun in this, I have never enjoyed any phase of competitive college sports, save perhaps the moment of winning. All the rest was torture--physical and mental...
Gerald Bamer is very successful with the rather difficult role of David; his timidness might easily be carried to extremes, but Mr. Hamer keeps it plausibly within bounds. Frank Westerton, as George, is a typically "silly ass" English man, while the other parts, with one or two unimportant exceptions, are consistently well-handled. A word might also be said for the "mob" of sporty English aristocrats, who contribute an ever-recurring ripple of laughter with such highly, accented expressions as "demn it!", "well, dear old precious!", "hello, old wonderful!" and the like...