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Sirs: I am inclosing a clipping from the Dayton Journal. The morning newspaper which printed the story, unlike its sister afternoon headliner the Herald and Jimmy Cox's* News, is usually quite unsensational, commonplace, dull and unimportant?it seldom "probes" or "raps." I do not think it even prints an annual sea-serpent story. So much for the implied authenticity of the story. PAUL...
There was a nagging drizzle from the dull skies of a late and soggy London afternoon. Hundreds of smart motors idled in a line extending from Admiralty Arch to the gates of Buckingham Palace, which were locked. For rather more than an hour sopping but irrepressible plebeians wandered up and down the sidewalks of Pall Mall commenting audibly upon the personal appearance and regalia of helplessly belimousined princes,* peers, ambassadors, dowagers and débutantes. Finally at 8:30 p.m. the gates of Buckingham swung open. Exhaling sighs of relief, nearly 1,000 guests stepped through the Palace door, prepared...
...Houghton, gowned in bois de rose embroidered with dull gold sequins and having a train of rose and gold broché lace, led forward, at the first or "diplomatic" Court last week seven ladies of the diplomatic circle, and the following whose presentation had been determined by other considerations:** The Misses Alice Lee? Eva Wise?? and Mildred Tytus of Manhattan, Miss Lorrain Liggett of Boston, Miss Caroline Patterson? of Dayton, Ohio, Miss Henrietta Johnson of Paris, Mrs. Wilson Pritchett of Philadelphia and Mrs. Curtis Brown of London...
...biographical romancing upon two fruitless subjects out of the three chosen. The power remains admirable, but the reading palls. The young Goethe's windy sentimentality for Charlotte Buff is shown translating itself into that sweet and sticky opus, The Sorrows of the Young Werther. Other chapters demonstrate the dull phenomenon of Mrs. Siddons, a British beauty with the spirit of a bourgeois curate, rising to histrionic heights on emotional wings supplied by the death of her asthmatic daughter-shallow and caddish Painter Thomas Lawrence being lugged in to emphasize the inferiority of the Siddons-Kemble strain. The one study...
Their receptiveness, their spontaneity, must be dull indeed if they fail to be ecstatic over "To Helen," "Ulalume," "Lenore," "Annabel Lee," "The Bells, " "The Haunted Palace," "Israfel" and the crowning glory of "The Raven," or they would not glibly drop such sentences as "two-fifths sheer fudge...