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...dressed up to suit its ruder palate. And if there is a place for sex in literature why should not the varietry share it? Life with all its experiences means as much to it as to the more effete sophisticates. If these new periodicals flash a bit of light into the deadly village dullness or provide a vicarious escape for a dry goods clerk one must grant them some justification...
...bit of lax refereeing by Director Gregory La Cava allows Slagle, in a Pathe News exerpt, to double for Dix, and to run 80 yards for Yale against Harvard. If humor depends upon incongruity, this is a wow. A post-game celebration results in the wrecking of the Club Prado in accordance with the best Mack Sennett traditions. Quarterback Dexter and his backfield mates conquer the waiter's eleven, but are penalized 30 days, for unnecessary roughness by the superior blue jacket reserves. An accidental escape from jail follows, a hasty wedding, so that Dexter's stay in foreign waters...
...reference in TIME to things German that wasn't "guttural." For instance in TIME, Feb. 22, p. 12. ". . . an official condemnation of Mussolini which they voted with guttural acclaim." Of course the German language is guttural, but did the adjective improve the above sentence one bit ? I rather think it didn't. It "gets on my nerves...
This particular evening, matrons saw Booth halt abruptly when he entered the ballroom. He blenched, bit his lips, stood taut...
...HOUNDS OP SPRING?Sylvia Thompson?Little, Brown ($2). The bird's-eye view of Miss Thompson's novel is promising. A girl's true love goes to war and is reported dead. Desolate and a bit selfish, she marries with half a heart. Then the grave?which was a living one, a prison camp?gives up its dead. She finds it in her to leave husband and child, to conclude, on a veranda in Fiesole, that she was wise to relight her candle after fate had snuffed it. The story is straightforwardly written out, with honest British cliches of word...