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...pause. When told of the so-called "riot" of last winter he laughed. "Oxford has been called the only place in England where the police are on good terms with the criminal class. A police helmet there is a popular and rather common student trophy. We choose our man knock his helmet off and promptly make away with it. Later we see that he is paid for his head piece...
...size of an indoor baseball-into one of the rinks marked off on a 40-yard square green in an effort to hit the "jack" or to rest as near it as possible. Following players, up to the number of four, tried also to hit the jack, or to knock opponents' bowls into the ditch which surrounds the green. At the end of a round, the side which had bowl or bowls nearest the jack was counted winner...
...prank: "Antony and I had a world of fun. We would rush up to a house (in the darkness), knock loudly at the door, and then hide ourselves in the shadows. When the door was opened, we let out a long, dismal, wolflike howl, and then ran away giggling in the dark...
...work, but we devote comparatively little to improving the hours of recreation. We associate joy with leisure. We have great machinery to produce joy, some of it destructive, some of it synthetic, some of it mass-produced. We go to chain theatres and movies; we watch somebody else knock a ball over the fence or kick it over the goal bar. I do that and I believe in it. I do, however, insist that no other organized joy has values comparable to the joys of the out-of-doors. We gain less from the other forms in moral stature...
...course "Katja" has great odds to face. It is advertised as being a visual and auricular knock out in New York, London, Paris, Berlin and points both east and west. Its producers announce it to Boston as the continental equivalent of what is known in contemporary parlance as a wow. And now "Katja" turns out to be something much less than a wow. One can mention two possible causes for this decline and fall of what is evidently a good operetta in other places; one is the cast which, with the exception of an energetic young lad with a flare...