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Turning again to the undergraduate contributors, Mr. Abbott's sonnet deserves especial praise; but we deplore Mr. Marshall's idiosyncrasies in the modern manner, both of matter and arrangement, and we confess to a down-right bitterness in regard to Mr. Mangan's "Crest". Mr. LaFarge's second contribution must bring our review to a close. It is a story, excellently conceived and skillfully written, perhaps too skillfully, for at the end there is little but its conpetence and its manner to carry it on. There is a sort of frustrate maturity about the Advocate at times which prevents...
...well confess that I do not read Czecho-Slovak, although if certain dramatists do not stop writing their curiously interesting--I am tempted to say, confoundedly provoking--dramas in that language, it may soon become a required course for the student of the drama. But I must not forget that I am trying to write this from the standpoint of the man in the audience; the man who may be such a student, but who above all, wants to see a "good show...
Before he can decide whether to confess the debts or try to make some money by getting frantically to work upon his intended "great British novel," Henry becomes ill, grows touchingly dependent upon Tony and affectionate with him. Tony finds himself confessing, and at Henry's offer to settle the debts grows so genuinely remorseful that he determines to go back to Cambridge in the proper spirit and get all there is to be had from his last years there. But Henry grows rapidly worse, and at length when he dies, Tony has acquired some characteristics of permanent value?chief...
...rumor originated. . . I was brought before the most remarkable woman in Russia, Simanova, known as 'The Merciless,' and the real chief of the Foreign Department. She is less than 30 years of age, beautiful, and a blonde with blue eyes. After questioning me she demanded that I confess that I was a spy. I refused and she turned to one of her assistants and said: 'He must be shot.' . . . Again I was taken before Simanova and after expressing regret that she could not have me shot just then, sent me to the Butirik prison...
...business to repair radios, so I know something about them. Yet I must confess that when I tuned into your concert the other night, I thought my set was broken", wrote a radio fan to the lampoon staff who broadcasted a humorous concert from Station WNAC on Friday evening...