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...problem- how to marry off three sisters in six months. Everything seems happily managed, when lo! into the third act comes an utterly unheralded complication-and Henry goes to the district attorney's office. It is gradually divulged that Henry, to adorn his sisters with a marital background, had bartered skim milk instead of cream. For no good reason he is released and the entire cast pairs off and marries, which is theatre for a happy ending. Al Roberts as a comedian gets no laughs...
...Photographic candidate has his reasons, however. There is the training in the technical side of photography; of developing, printing, and enlarging pictures. There is the acquirement of a discriminating taste in photography, the appreciation of what is good and bad in grouping, light effects, background, and what not. In short he has mastered what may be a vocation, and what certainly is a delightful hobby...
...discovered by the great man who gave forty years of his life in building Harvard University from the small, yet glorious fragments of an ancient heritage, that the only atmosphere in which Truth can flourish is that of freedom. Hence there is no undistinguished background to this benefice, received as their trust by the Class of 1930. Not the futile liberty of frenzied, nor the license of vulgar minds, but the freedom essential to the growth of decent, vital, creative minds--that is the gift with which Harvard University endows its students...
...these Apostles [Judas Iscariot] has caused great mischief. That it ever gained credence does not speak well for men's acumen. . . . There is no exaggeration in saying that this legend, which sets a devil up against the figure of light for the sake of an effective background, has caused hundreds of thousands of human beings to be tortured and murdered...
...editor of Books, the literary supplement of the New York Herald-Tribune. With Mrs. Sherman, he was canoeing off Manistee, Mich., and failed to swim ashore with her when capsized. Apparent cause: heart attack. Literary critics axe few in the U. S. Cultivation of the critical attitude against a background of letters, and its regular exercise for the promotion of better writing and the edification of the public, is practiced professionally by a scanty corporal's guard. Critic Sherman was eminently of this group, despite the fact that much of his work was laden with a heavy...