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...blind fear of the hunted. And with admirable logic, A. J. is finally betrayed, not through any fear of his but by a "woman acorned". Raffles on the stage is no less lovable a villain than he was in "The Amateur Cracksman", and his impudent assurance in all manner of tight places gains tremendously from that vividness which is the hallmark of the stage. For suspense without horror and comedy of innuendo, the Playgoer advocates "Raffles...
...omelette, with perhaps a humorous aside while his wife is buttering the toast. As for class rooms, there will be no further need for them, and the dormitory shortage at Harvard will undoubtedly be met by turning Sever and the New Lecture Hall into comfortable, suites-after the manner of Grays. No method has as yet been suggested for conducting laboratory courses on a wireless basis but the toilers within the noisome halls of Boylston still live in hope. University Extension will soon be a mere matter of Kilowatts, and the Edison Light Company is destined shortly to become...
...Punch's brilliant strokes of humor, wit, and insight made his country's history more readable than the much-praised efforts of countless weary archivists. Not only does he supply all necessary background, and explain what and why, without equivocation, "Punch" did but he supplies all this in a manner unobtrusive and so in keeping with the general tone of the magazine, that it seems from start to finish as though Mr. Punch himself were speaking...
...most distinguished visitor to the college this year has been Mr. Frank Vanderlip, who with his wife has been making a study of European conditions. Mr. Vanderlip spoke in chapel in the subject of internationalism in a discriminating and searching manner which immediately won the respect of the student body. Mrs. Vanderlip made a short plea for the education of women in then Near East...
...words, has as much to do with it as deduction. Detectives fall in cases like that of High-tower, or of William Taylor, not because they are incapable of reasoning processes similar to those of Holmes, but because, as Chesterton says, clues never point one way, after the convenient manner of the clues Dr. Doyle plotted for his hero...