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...must be difficult to be a good humorist and still remain a human being. Irvin Cobb has done that; but, after all, his humor is Brobdingnagian. It partakes of brown gravy, and of cream puffs thrown wantonly. F. P. A. is occasionally human, though at times he seems to become the war sage looking at life through the war glasses of an ironist. Robert C. Benchley is almost human. Perhaps if I could see him weep once, I should actually believe in his humanity. Thomas Masson is human; but his humor is the genial story. He is the raconteur...
Only 38. This is one of those pictures about college life. The crossed tennis racket, roll-necked sweater college life perpetrated exclusively by the DeMille boys. Female inhabitants of the institution walk the campus clutching ice cream cones...
...Lonely, my own children being away, I invited about 40 children who live near the Executive Mansion to pay me a visit. I entertained them with ginger ale, ice cream and a movie show...
...Squire, English poet and critic, declared that the best line in all English poetry is: "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon." (Macbeth...
...creator a chance. Mr. MacKaye's solution of the academic difficulty, on the other hand, is more leisure, "leisure to dream and be tolerated". He thinks that the present regime stunts or thwarts many men of ability; that the last two years in college should be largely free to Cream in; and that a degree of "cum spe"--"for those who give promise"--would ultimately be more honorable than the Phi Beta Kappa. Alas, that degree "cum spe"--in default of any concrete performance--is already bestowed more often than Mr. MacKaye imagines...