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...just the same, you are conscious of the presence of well-wrinkled repartee. It doesn't make Bette Davis look prettier to hear her say: "I'll swallow my pride and go to him"; after the first laugh Leslie Howard seems a bit silly to say, when a knock on the door finds him in the arms of his stage partner, "Your husband." Perhaps you are the kind who can overlook the bad and remember only the good; then, you will long enjoy such lines as the one by Mr. Howard kissing the lovely Olivia de Havilland...
Each spring almost every team in both baseball leagues announces confidently that it will win the pennant; before the championship fight both challenger and defender are sure they will knock out the other. Likewise, in beginning this year's dogfight, the government and big business, with labor sandwiched somewhere in between, have sounded the note of war. The Administration, which should, because of its position, be acquainted with the virtues of tact and temperance, has obviously blown its trumpet too hard and very flat. On the other side, both business and labor have shown by their utterances that they...
...polite bill of complaint against the physicists. A chief item was that after laymen have learned to regard protons, electrons and other charged particles as nothing but electricity, the physicists adduce the neutron which has no charge and therefore cannot exist-although a stream of neutrons will knock the living daylights out of a block of paraffin. With equal politeness Professor Andrade replied, declaring in effect that it was really not the physicists' fault if atoms behaved in a way not explainable "in anthropomorphic terms of likes and dislikes," that physicists were not trying to be confusing...
Previous films shown by the Committee this year have been "Doctor Knock" and "Kermesse Heroique." Contributors may obtain passes from Mrs. E. K. Rand, 107 Lake View Avenue, Cambridge, and additional tickets may be purchased from...
...Wintergreen for President" and the "Yale Medley" will be featured on the band's program at today's game. It will knock the "L" out of the big YALE which it will form after it marches once the field in a huge "H", spreading a the way across the field...