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...Western American realists in story writing, who have been courting precisely this bath of mirth for nearly four years. The execution is performed in a short story entitled "Anna's Ham". It is complete and pulverizing, and the more so because the tale in which the hideous deed is done is a first rate piece of story telling in itself, keenly alive, and crowded with imaginative touches. The thing is studded with gems of Rabelaisian understatement, and it moves with a gallop of rustic passion...
...this comedy, that is advertised as the "hit of the season," the symptoms of the infirmity are laid bare before the audience. Every detail of the eternal triangle, of love in the Middle West, of hideous interior furnishings, of efficient business methods, of small-town family life, is ready for you if you are suffering from the disease. If, on the other hand, you are one of the sophisticates who shrug a shoulder at such things, you will probably find the play as effective a satire as "Main Street" or 'Beggar on Horseback." The only flaw in our enjoyment...
...sombre study of the 18th Century slave trade. The tale is David Scott's, told in his own burred words. A young Scotch Jacobite, he fell in with the dark traffic upon escaping from penal indenture in Virginia. The evils of that traffic, the crime of the hideous Middle Passage, bore heavy on his Scotch conscience...
...number of auto tire companies have already retired from the field of billboard advertising, and two large producers of spark plugs and flour are preparing similar retreats. In some of the eastern states, the removal of these hideous and obstructive signs is being hastened by restrictive legislation. Women's clubs and other civic organizations are earnest supporters of the movement for their abolition. And the extension of prohibitive legislation will certainly hasten the withdrawal of manufacturers who in general are more weary of this expensive and unproductive competition...
...early cartographers located the sea in different parts of the unknown ocean, populated it with hideous mythological monsters...