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Under the circumstances it is hardly reasonable to expect too much of the lesser flora amid which Poppy blooms. One faultless feature is sufficient for the normal musical comedy. But Poppy is abnormal. It has in addition to Miss Kennedy the funniest comedian at present exhibiting in New York...
...Vermont soil, took book-learning fitfully at Dartmouth, then at Harvard, reverted early to the teachings of nature in open fields and wooded hill country. He was and is a farmer, by temperament and occupation, but has found time to teach, first at a local academy, later at normal school and Amherst College (1916-20). His published works are contained in four slim volumes. He has a reputation for thinking much, transcribing little. He returns this Fall to Amherst...
...several days after the Japanese earthquake, the Tribune sold 5,000 copies more than normal...
...emphasized the difficulty at present of purchasing and storing the abnormal petroleum output; he nevertheless expressed confidence in the future of the industry. Mr. Bedford stated that during his 40 years' experience in the oil business he could not recall a single year which could be called normal, in the sense that production and consumption exactly balanced. "We are now," he concluded, "in the midst of a crisis in the industry, and I have no desire to minimize the serious aspects of the situation, but I must confess that if the petroleum industry ever ceased to be abnormal...
...told, too, how film infants lose their normal childhood because they are not allowed to play in other children's back yards. Violent games are forbidden owing to the likelihood of accident. Sleeping hours are all awry. The children are primarily edified by the spectacle of their parents fighting over the weekly pay check...