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...Hollywood notables whose names were in it. On learning that he knew none of them, she lost interest in him, disrespectfully inquired later how he came to be a general. She likes vaudeville jokes, frequently repeats an impudent riddle she learned from Bill Robinson: "How's the tailoring business?" "So-so." On sitting down to a game of squares, she humiliates her opponents by saying, "There're no spots on your suit, but you're going to the cleaners...
...work in New York, editorial writing in Chicago, made the Friday Literary Review of the Chicago Evening Post the best thing of its kind in the Midwest; went to The New Republic to do books, resigned in 1922 to write books of his own?several historical-sociological works, one so-so novel (That Nice Young Couple), and now Henry the Eighth. He has found his work. Royalties on more than 100,000 copies of Henry are beginning to pour in upon Biographer Hackett, now at his home in Duncannon, Ireland...
...been a so-so session of Congress. President Coolidge congratulated both houses with a warmth which was surprising in view of the lesions Congress had caused in the Administration's program. Congress had far overshot the Coolidge ideas on farm-relief and flood control; overcut the Mellon idea of tax reduction; left stranded the Wilbur "Big Navy"; appropriated some 500 millions beyond the Budget; retained Muscle Shoals instead of disposing of it as Mr. Coolidge urged...
...Coleridge letters are inscribed to one Mr. Tobin, and are full of gossip about the doings of Wordsworth and the writer. Wordsworth's health is referred to as "but so-so", while Hartley Coleridge, later a poet himself, who was about 14 years old at this time, is styled "a young animal." In both manuscripts, which are quite legible, the signature of the writer is well-preserved...
...teaching of classes, and he attended Philosophy A and English 11B, a course in Milton. In a special interview to a CRIMSON representative, he expounded his views of the University in the purest of English, albeit with a pronounced foreign accent. At the explanations of the reporter, he constantly interjected, "So-so?" and then took the utmost pains to make his statement clearly understood...