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...psychologist looks askance at the CRIMSON candidate. For how can one explain the inconsistencies in the man's character? Parents shudder at the proposition and advise their children to shun such torture. Roommates make up their minds that a black sheep has deserted the fold. And through it all the candidate alone remains serene. For him it is not torture, the others just do not understand. He delights in the scoops, he gloats over his interviews with celebrities and thrills to the click-clack of many typewriters at work...
...wild-eyed truck-driver burst into the Lambda Chi kitchen. ''Where's the furnace?" he cried. A startled chef pointed to the cellar door. The truckman clattered down the steps, dived for the furnace, switched it off. Not until then did he draw breath to explain that by mistake he had filled the tank not with fuel oil but with gasoline. All that saved the Lambda Chi house from destruction were a few inches of oil left in the tank, which fed from the bottom. The gasoline was just about to drain into the combustion tank when...
...without appearing to have stepped into pro-Victorian England out of a Ziegfeld chorus. C. Aubrey Smith is excellent as Wellington. As old Mrs. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who gets the wittiest lines Nunnally Johnson was able to pack into his script, Helen Westley is superb. Called upon to explain why she has lived so long, she answers, with a muddled sense of finance, by saying: "Why should God take me at 88 when He can get me at 100?" George Arliss has been playing another Jew. Disraeli, for so long and under so many names, that he cannot step completely...
...fully aware of the hilarity this letter will create in the CRIMSON office, and amongst those undergraduates who, judging from superficialities, consider Kramer somewhat of an anomaly at Harvard, none the less I present it. Victor might blow his own horn about the little things, but he would never explain away a criticism which was based on superficialities; that, also, would be petty. And Little Napoleon is certainly not that. (Name withheld by request...
...cannot explain why," said Prince Youssoupov, "but I suddenly seized him by both arms and violently shook him. As I did that his eyes trembled and lifted...