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...stiff is broken and everything comes flowing in light and warm. See what I mean?'') Characters, sharply delineated at first, develop inconsistencies. The plot at times becomes foggy. Most readers will end the book a little baffled-feeling as if they had been shown a brisk bit of action, but forced to view it through pink-tinted ground glass...
...allotted time to gather momentum for any convincing love-making. Eleanor Powell has too few moments for her tapping specialty; George Murphy, singer of songs, finds himself trying rather unsuccessfully to follow Miss Powell's steps; Robert Benchley doesn't say anything really funny. Only Buddy Ebsen is himself, bit player and stealer of shows...
...will watch the guardians themselves?" is the inviting slogan of the magazine. Well, if I am to be the watchdog this time, I will bark and say that the November issue has taken on a bit of the color of the month in which it appears...
...Harvard Guardian" is a great enterprise, and one in which I believe 100% but there seems to be a bit too much "Harvard," and too little "Guardian" this time...
...doing Professor Langer an injustice to repeat a bit of one of his lectures without his inflection, but it would go something like this: "You know, gentlemen, Baroness was a very remarkable woman. She had a long and distinguished string of admirers, among whom was Meternich. They didn't see each other very often, but carried on a long and interesting correspondence. Meternich's love letters, gentlemen, were more or less theoretical. Later the Baroness was very close to George Canning, very close." Warner Shippee Correspondent to the MINNESOTA DAILY