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...Most of my popular slang phrases and sayings originated in San Francisco. The once over, ' 23,' run out powder, hire a hall, jitney, flivver, Larry turn the crank, get your goat, where d'ye get that stuff, and hundreds of others came from there...
Tentative plans also indicate the production of The Goat Song, a drama of Pan-worship, by Franz Werfel; Fata Morgana, by Ernst Vajda; and a second American play...
...well-known "hokum" of the Indian and the White man in the "silent purple wastes of the Arizona desert" even including the special "Indian" music. It is followed by a pseudo-historical play, "Napoleon's Barber" by Arthur Caesar, of a familiar pattern. The third play, "Goat Alley" by Ernest Howard Culbertson, is saved from being sheer melodrama by its characterization. Floyd Dell's scintillating little comedy "Sweet and Twenty" and "Tickless Time" by Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, though the latter is more or less trick writing, are highly amusing and the first notable plays of the group...
...Europe the National Park idea is an innovation. The royal game preserves have kept from extinction several species of wild game like the bouquetin corresponding to our mountain goat; but the formation of a National Park has been hailed all over Italy with enthusiasm...
Foreign nations have taken what they wanted from China, and have united in making her the "goat". Japan especially, up to the present time, has helped herself, excusing the action by saying that China would never have been able to make the most of her advantages and that they are better in competent hands. But now Japan has restored Shantung. If other nations will follow the "hands off policy" in dealing with China, that nation will have a better chance of working out her own destiny...