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Show SOME SIMILES Sterile as a test-tube. John Sarter. j Jolly as a hospital. John Grierson. 1 Living as the pain in a tooth. Ellen i Glasgow. i Bores are like dentisLs' drills. Al- J1 dous Huxley. ' Brutally frank as a passport photo- graph. Irvin S. Cobb. About as p.rivate as a trolley ride. ; New York Evening World.' Lonely as a revivalist's notion of Heaven. H. Bedford Jones. i i Fell over as softly as a dying creampuff. George S. Chappell. The evil wind blew like the whisper whis-per of a woman. Lord Dunsany. : Rho 1ms n nilnrl like n framed sentl- f ment to set above an office desk. I Fannie Hurst. J A modern college is like a cafeteria ! boys select what they want to study. i Glenn Frank. ; She looked like a pearl-handled ' v automatic in a velvet case; pretty and dangerous. Karl Green. Exquisitely unwise, like music daring dar-ing to twist free of the words of a song. Grace Hazard Conklin. A -flapper is like a bungalow, paint- j" ed in front, shingled in the rear and j nothing in the attic. Richard Henderson. Hen-derson. Garnered by E. J. Wilstrach, for the Boston Globe. |