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...hath it that in the days long since departed, one noble resident of Hollis Hall received executive permission to tother his favorite cow on sacred ground not far from his corner room. And, indeed, this could hardly be construct as strange when our renowned historians tell us that, all gossip to the contrary, Harvard's Yard, long criticized for its snobbish and aristocratic name, was once just what that name did mean. For in the days of much Latin and little English, all gootle and healthie colleges did have a central plotted upon which fed the domestic servants...
...prizewinner was Men in White by Sidney Kingsley. This was startling and unpleasant news to the play jury composed of Clayton Hamilton, oldtime drama-critic, Author Walter Prichard Eaton (Boy Scouts in the Dismal Swamp}, and Play wright Austin Strong (Seventh Heaven}. Incensed not at Gossip Winchell's premature revelation but at the Columbia School of Journalism's general prize committee for scuttling the play jury's unanimous choice, Professor Hamilton hotly declared: "I think it's outrageous. The opinion of the judges, who selected [Maxwell Anderson's] Mary of Scotland...
...Istanbul's national museum. Others work as doormen, waiters, handymen, servants. The rich and successful eunuchs who once held vast power in Turkey, help to maintain clubs near the great oldtime palaces, where the destitute members of their lost calling gather, dress up, observe the old etiquet, gossip, intrigue and try to keep back their tears. They love platonically and when disappointed, sometimes lose their appetite, develop consumption...
WHISPERING TONGUES-Laurence Kirk -Doubleday, Doran ($2). The gossip of an English village brings Forster-Daintree to the dock after his wife's death and his almost immediate second marriage. Although he is acquitted, the whisper of poisoner still persists. The village doors are locked at night. Twined throughout the district are the tendrils of the Forster family, spoiled and queer from intermarriage and frustration. When death of the clan's head reveals murder for pride, the village breathes again, but does not understand...
...greater part has sped dying and fallen dead. Of late, professional criticism has degenerated into scurrilous and personal appraisements of, and assaults on, officials. A conspicuous recent instance is by a writer who dared not sign his name. . . . With a little less than libel, a trifle more than backstairs gossip, this writer in whose veins there must flow something more than a trace of rodent blood, exalts some who are weak and throws mud at some who are strong. . . . All this is published by a dying newspaper, recently purchased at auction by an Old Dealer-a cold-blooded reactionary...