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...first lecture here, the students acknowledged the masterpiece by applauding. At the beginning of the next class, however, the noted teacher and scholar openly thanked them for the applause but requested that they refrain from such actions in the future...
Britain, said the Führer, taking up his old refrain, had refused to make peace with him. "I wanted the closest friendship with England. I thought the Germanic races should go together. If England had agreed, good. They did not agree. Also good. If England says that the war will continue, that is all the same to me. But it will end with our victory. You may believe me in that...
Bert Lytell gives a savory performance as the ham and Evelyn Varden is comic as the fat directrix of the players who rehearses to the refrain of "Nuts in May, nuts in May!" a dance intended to enliven one of the morbid dramas of Chekhov. But as a whole this supposedly sparkling little vehicle by the author of the 1934 comedy hit Personal Appearance gives off about as much electricity as a horse...
...twelve deafening minutes he stood on a table before the roaring crowd. When they finally let him speak, his voice, with the flat, deep quality of a bass horn, touched off one outburst after another. Item by item he pilloried the acts of the Roosevelt Administration, interjecting a thunderous refrain: "That is the record of the New Deal. It is not the method of Democracy. I want to unite all people in America. I have no prejudice against any. I want to unite labor, industry and agriculture. I want to unite Catholic and Protestant, Jew and Gentile." The crowd, waving...
...remarks to make about The One Inimitable Band Around Today, for which he subsequently apologized. Now that's all fine, as one seldom sees such downright honesty in a critic. However, it seems to me that George would save himself a lot of word-eating if he'd only refrain from his occasional excursions into adolescent bombast...