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...Hamlet: O, reform it (the play) altogether. And let those that play your glowns speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some barren quantity of spectators to laugh too; though, in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses...
...indifference which the undergraduate wears so proudly on his shoulder, we have always noted with keen delight how the fair name of Harvard is treasured "in partibus infidelium," and in the desolate, barren, exotic, tropical, and sandy wastes of the world. We have just heard of one of these noble sentiments which arose from a controversy in Alexandria, Virginia...
...year 1933 was the fourth in the greatest industrial crisis in history. Standing between an old world that was forever dead and a new world that was not fully born, whom would the discerning and alert U. S. citizen pick as Man of the Year? Notably barren of candidates was the British Commonwealth. Pious Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's London Economic Conference was a notorious fiasco. In rapid succession, France dealt and discarded three Cabinets in twelve months, produced no leader sufficiently bold or capable to rescue her from the climbing quicksands of insolvency. In Russia Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
Sinkiang, a province of barren wastes and rich oases 2,000 miles northwest of Nanking, was still the scene last week of savage guerrilla warfare between wild-eyed Moslem tribesmen and the better equipped Chinese troops sent out to rule them. Sinkiang paper money was worth 3% of its face value. But the threatened secession of Sinkiang from China to join the Soviet Union seemed to have been averted, partly due to the daring of Foreign Minister Lo Wen-kan of Nanking who has just led a "pacification mission" to and from these howling wilds...
...Married. Barren Gift Collier Jr., 24, eldest son of the car-card tycoon; and Barbara May, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...