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...Harvard Museum explorer. . . . The explorer said the Indians were completely naked and without homes, shelter or traps of any kind, subsisting on food gathered in the jungles or shot with bow and arrow. . . . Dr. Wees was unable to photograph the Indians, who were as shy as animals and every bit as dangerous. Their chief menace to the jungle traveler, he said, was their quest for horses and mules which they sought for meat...
...been in New England and I don't think that Boston audiences are bad at all. Everybody told me that they would be cold, but on the contrary, I think they are very receptive. The theaters, and the censors, aren't half bad, We haven't had a bit of trouble, except, of course, that we had to cut the act for the Sunday rule which says no dancing. That law seems funny to me, as I don't know of any other city which...
...reached down slowly beside his chair to feel for a bit of pottery and coughed. "When I graduated there were no fountains. There were pretty girls, and beer, and nervous youths, and expansive fathers, and happy mothers, and honorary degrees--but," and the voice trailed off--"there were no fountains...
...Donaldson's "A Sentimental Journey" is a clever bit, in which smart young people talk of serious matters obliquely; the brilliance of their conversation is scintillating and altogether impossible, but it makes good reading. Mr. Swain's "Young Emile Chadwick" presents a variation or two on the O. Henry formula, and the reader struggles to accept the formula so that he may enjoy the effect...
...lunch that the Vagabond fell in with the country doctor. This member of the most noble branch of a noble calling had just finished a call and was about to go off on another, but he spared the moment for a bit of light talk. It seemed that his father had died when he was two, leaving his mother with several worldly children and a few ethereal dividends. There followed for him the public schools with their trials and tribulations, until in his senior year he saw, through the gloom of adolescent disinterestedness, the gleam of his future profession...