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...Henry VIII" and will do with "John Gabriel Borkman." The actual merit of the production is secondary to the fact that interested spectators are seeing, in ideal repertory offerings, things that were destined for the stage and have, by changes in modern tastes and temperaments, been relegated to the closet...
...Such improvements have preoccupied the Strachey clan before. John's eminent cousin, the late Historian Lytton Strachey, wrote of Elizabethan Sir John Harington: "The gay young man looked about for new worlds to conquer. . . . Suddenly inspired, he invented the water-closet...
...Rogers campaigner went on the air to rattle a few skeletons in the Patterson closet: 1) the left-wing supported candidate was a turncoat Republican; 2) he had been a vociferous isolationist; 3) in 1940 he had called F.D.R. a warmonger...
...Godliness is a first-rate literary essay, overflowing with sanity and bubbling with wit. Its heroes include Moses (whose laws, says Author Reynolds, were based less on divine sanction than on pamphlets issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Health); Elizabethan Sir John Harington, the inventor of the water-closet ("his name [is] writ in water"), and Victorian Sir Edwin Chadwick (he popularized glazed earthenware drains...
Stertz had partitioned off with sleazy grey curtains. The tentlike affair had no win dow, no closet and no furniture but a cot, a straight chair and a rickety table. It cost $6 a week. Betty shared a dirty bathroom with the janitor and six other girls...