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...entwined himself in the Hemingway toils that he is unable to escape. Further, he assumes that all the young readers of Mr. Hemingway have done the same, an idea, fortunately, somewhat fallacious. Many may regard the author of "Death in the Afternoon", as a fit subject for Thurber's wit; few conceive of him as worthy the emulation due the object of a popular "hero-myth...
...through, enjoying the comfortable, gouty advertisements, all of health bread or tyres, or Haig, all with the chorus, the eternal chorus, Made in England. The Vagabond settled more evenly in the luxuries which They Won't Be Able to Have When They Graduate and ran through the Charivaria. English wit, English witl He glanced once again at the little man on the ass, just beneath Mr. Punch on the cover, and buried himself in Lalage's letter. England, he was reassured, would muddle through...
...high box office rating and a salary to match, it will be a most extraordinary turn of events. His appeal is essentially neither sentimental nor simian. In an era when Hollywood's other successful matinee idols either beat their women or sing to them, he personifies grace, intelligence, poise, wit. Son of a British actor, Herbert Marshall fitted himself, at St. Mary's College, to be an articled clerk. He did so poorly at it that he was forced to go on the stage. Just before the War he played with Cyril Maude in Grumpy. Herbert Marshall has divided...
...enlivening of Class Day, its rejuvenation, does not entail unearthing a new traditions which have died a natural death. The problem is one of cultivating those which already exist, and of providing further embellishments for eye, ear, and wit to meet the anticipation of those who attend. The rush of Seniors to graduate schools, or to fortunately obtained employment lessons the outstanding significance of Commencement to a large number of men. Class Day can be revamped and returned to a semblance of its former hearty self if the exercises are arranged to provide more substantial nourishment for the Harvard tempered...
...bowels of Lampy, but his Einstein united the venerable magazine, too well. Year by year Plympton street observers have heard the dinner boll ring, and observed the Jester and his crow grow fatter and fatter on Arthur's food, till the bright sparklings of pristine wit grow don and failed, overlaid with the thick roll of fleshy matter...