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...Pliny, Aristotle, Galen, Plutarch. "On the other hand, we cannot be too emphatic in declaring that we are not interested in promoting the happiness of that wretched group whose only criterion of excellence in wine is the violence of its 'kick.' Let them ride white mule to maudlin joys. We have nothing to offer them." Vintner-Professor Rose, slick-haired, mundane, long famed among his friends in New Haven for the excellence of his cellar, has set down a valuable store of good, plain advice on the preparation and care of dry red wines, dry white wines, live...
Symphony In Two Flats. No one qualifies for the title of British Matinee Idol better than handsome, dark-maned Ivor Novello (Davies), songwriter, theatrical manager, playwright, actor, cinemactor. A graduate of Magdalen (pronounced "maudlin") College, Oxford, he published his first ballad when 15. When he was 21 the War broke out. Mr. Novello signalized the event by composing the big-selling ballad, "Keep The Home Fires Burning...
Playwright Shaw's memoir of Wilde is sparkling. Shaw reports the "maudlin pathos and inconceivable want of tact" of Wilde's brother Willie. Slily he says: "Oscar was not a man of bad character: you could have trusted him with a woman anywhere." Shaw did not like Wilde personally, considered him a "Dublin snob"; but when Shaw was trying to get signatures of London literary men to a petition for the reprieve of the Chicago anarchists (1885), Wilde was the only one who would sign. Says Shaw: "It secured my distinguished consideration for him for the rest...
...Publisher Ochs was delighted to brighten with Nosko's screed the dull squabbles or the maudlin applause of his other correspondents, he was even more delighted to observe that a controversy had been started which concerned not Josef Nosko's mongrel, Buster, but the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In the process of the controversy, as detailed in the news columns of the Times, the A. S. P. C. A. was accused of malpractices more disreputable than the theft of Nosko's Buster...
When the crowd of students watched the athletic building go up in flame and smoke yesterday morning they witnessed the passing of a landmark, despite its newness in comparison with other buildings of Harvard, well-dyed in the athletic history of the University. There is no room for maudlin sentimentality in Harvard tradition but there is enough sincere regret in the burning of the locker building to make its loss more one of attachment than of practicality. It is fortunate that the building is to be replaced by a modern structure through graduate generosity, but up to date conveniences...