Courtesy of Project Gutenberg, here is Robert Benchley‘s essay on “watching” football at the Club where the play-by-play is announced by a member reading aloud the latest telegram. http://www.robertbenchley.org/oat/index.htm This esssay appeared in Benchley’s book Love Conquers All , published Printed October, 1922. Note 1. On personal preference: We are Penn State. Note 2. Thanks to my […]
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REGINALD ON CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
Excerpt: “Personally, I can’t see where the difficulty in choosing suitable presents lies. No boy who had brought himself up properly could fail to appreciate one of those decorative bottles of liqueurs that are so reverently staged in Morel’s window…. People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the religious system that produced […]