Word: dumbness
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...masterpiece. This makes the book cockide to begin with because who ever has been there when a woman has started a argument and then been lazy enough to leave her opponent, if of the suspender half of the family, end it. Besides Nina is just dumb enough to get tender at the end of her piece and say something about how women couldn't get along without men anyhow, at which Ring measures his distance and steps in and ends the fight with one wallop. He says in one place that his wife never reads his stuff...
...King of the World". A Buddhist legend, a myth if you will; this King appeared in India and Siam over two thousand years ago. And "he blessed the people with a golden apple with the figure of a Lamb above it. The blind received their sight, the dumb spoke, the deaf heard, the crippled freely moved and the dead arose, wherever the eyes of the King of the World rested"! This same King also appeared at a monastery in Mongolia in 1890, and prophesied the World War, the tall of eight great kings, and the Revolution. . . . You may believe this...
...Curtis Nelson '24 Lightnin', a messenger to Antony R. S. Flinn '23 Octavious Caesar, a Triumvir, by Gosh! R. H. Sears '24 Octavia, a worthy decoration in any home P. F. Pond '25 The Comedy Element P. L. Cheney 2S. L. A. Cleo's Messenger, as dumb as he looks M. S. Jones...
Among the "specialties" that were featured was the song "I want to tell you", sung by R. S. Flinn '23;, "When Nero Played His Fiddle", with J. R. West '23, L. F. Holmes '24, and H. S. Pinkham, '25; and the "Dance of the Dumb Waiter", with P. L. Cheney 2S. A. "Looking Backwards". "My Gridironed King", and "I forgot to Kiss you Goodbye" were the outstanding song-hits of the show...
...Irving Berlin should stray into Hemenway gymnasium some afternoon about five o'clock he would undoubtedly receive the inspiration of his life. He would engage without further reference some few members of the "gym class" on their aesthetic interpretation alone. Not only dancers, but, acrobats, contortionists, weight lifters, dumb-bells, all under one room and operating to music. Nothing lacking but a name. Ah! The Soap Box Revue...