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...twerp, as Reader Propes should know without dictionary-thumbing, is a small, pretentious, ineffective and unpleasant person whose mode of self-expression falls between a twitter and a chirp...
...what the desire for some means of injecting life and a high register into the booming basses of our choral organization. However the problem seems to have been solved. some decision must have been reached, although it smacks to us strongly of coercion. We leave it up to the reader to pass judgment. The cause for our concern is to wit, a notice issued to the Glee Club which reads as follows: "Notice: Rehearsal tonight at 7:30. All men and tenors...
...sign of their platonic troth, Moody wore a ring which Harriet had given him. Once there was a three-weeks' lapse in his letters from Europe. His shamefaced but still flowery explanation leaves a modern reader in doubt whether he had spent the interim in the gutter or had just not felt like writing: "After a time came rebellion and reckless grasping after life or what bore the semblance and wore the red flower of life, careless whether-nay, even glad if its heart were poisoned. I took-O sweet and noble soul, this will pain you cruelly...
Author Cozzens does not make the usual formal disclaimer: that all his characters are fictitious. Even if he had, many an Episcopalian reader would have recognized at least two likenesses-Bishop William T. Manning, onetime Father Harvey Officer-may think they see in his hero a similarity to the late Rev. Ralph Pomeroy...
...Fair (TIME, May 9, 1932), roused the tireless hopes of many a novel-addict, seemed to herald the coming of a genuine U. S. writer. But thereafter, in shoddy book after book, Author Stong showed where his heart was and where his treasure lay. By last week no intelligent reader had to be told that Phil Stong's eager gaze was bent not on Parnassus but on the hills of Hollywood...