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...Significance. Mr. Lewis once had a romantic twist (see Free Air, The Trail of the Hawk, The Job). Then discontent plagued him sore. He pickaxed through Main Street, spitted Babbitt. Now, slightly relieved but no whit satisfied, he hammers out a harsh heroism and lays it, hissing hot, to the flabby flank of Medicine. While he is thus occupied, his fancy is caught by a realist's dream of fair woman - wry little Leora. The satire is swift, sure, great in its age, and Leora, being of life, will outlive...
Ernest Truex plays, in that softly purring, neatly whimpering style of his, a little drug clerk out of a job, who succumbs in a moment of weakness to harboring a fearsome suitcase, crammed with bootleg liquor. Unknown to him, it also contains illicit narcotics and, when these are discovered, the little clerk naturally goes into the toils. Eventually he turns the tables, captures the head of the dope gang, is awarded by the authors a berth on the detective force out of gratitude for his ingenious acting...
...negro once declared, when told to get a job at the Eagle Laundry, 'Boss, Ah ain't had no 'sperience in washin' eagles.'" That is the way Mr. Stewart, himself a Yale graduate, felt about addressing Harvard audiences, he declared; but his present lecture tour with its attendant hardships has prepared him for the ordeal of disclosing to them the history of his life. His humor only came into its own, he said, when he left business as a profession some four years ago. Until then, his precocious wit was disparaged unanimously by neighbors, schoolmates, and employers. The first phase...
...job which George Higgins Moses undertook was nowise that which his predecessor had had. Since there had been no Vice President for 18 months, Mr. Cummins presided during that time and drew the Vice President's salary perquisites (notably an automobile and an office in the Capitol). Mr. Moses will preside only when Mr. Dawes is absent from the Chamber and draw only his normal salary...
Harvard men are known as "waps" in Labrador. At least such is the official title of four Harvard students who have been with Dr. Grenfell's mission in Labrador for the past summer. According to G. D. Krumbhaar '26, the foreman of the "waps", their job is anything from scrubbing floors in the hospitals to preaching sermons in the churches...