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...plays but one part in comedy, that of the stuttering country wit, misunderstood, despised, but in the end triumphant. He has never to my knowledge attempted other characters, nor is it necessary that he should. This vehicle has sufficed often enough to redeem trashy plays and hopeless casts. It is far better that an actor should give himself entirely to the audience once, that to display portions of himself a number of times...
...facts of the case," he says, "have been misunderstood with reference to Harvard's withdrawal from the contest 'in the middle of the year'. The bulletin announcing the Prize Song was dated September 28th. Our protest was made on October 2d, and on October 9th we notified the Intercollegiate Musical Corporation of the vote of the Executive Committee withdrawing Harvard from the contest unless the rule regarding unanimous consent for the Prize Song was carried out. The protest and notice of proposed withdrawal took place therefore within two weeks of the opening of college, not 'two or three months'. From...
There is, in Pittsburgh, a devout Catholic layman of prosperous business. He desires to do something for and about his religion. He would create sympathetic understanding for a religion which he supposes is grossly misunderstood. He would, so far as in him lieth, win souls...
...curly, black hair, Kenneth Farr of the Middle West could not help feeling that there was more in life than his mother had told him about between family prayers. When he grew older and found he was right, he pitied himself for not having been told; posed alternately as "misunderstood" and "no good." As is usual in such cases, he wrote bad verse. He sought liberation on the stage, in journalism, in writing advertising; but found it only, invariably, in willing women. Eventually that escape became familiar; unnecessary. Kenneth settled into his harness, comfortably drawing a wife and two children...
Despite the thunderheads of feeling which have enveloped him during his remarkable career, the dispassionate observer has seen him as a just man and an individualist who has had the courage to follow his firm convictions. Like the misunderstood and, therefore, the much reviled Trimmers of the 17th Century, he has often championed the weaker and discredited side. His services have often gone to the poor and the unfortunate, while he has not infrequently bettered the example of Abraham Lincoln by actually pleading the cause of a guilty man in order that the law, intimidated by the howls...