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...Salvemini went into voluntary exile, which subsequently became permanent. Losing his citizenship he became a man without a country, and since that time has acted as the unquestioned intellectual leader of the anti-Fascists. Unqualifiedly opposed to Fascism, which he considers a backward step, Professor Salvemini is now the ablest antagonist of Mussolini...
...wants to make her love him as somebody else. A surgeon changes him from a crook-shouldered, gross, bearded, bespectacled, wedge-nosed fellow, to a straight, handsome cineman-to the likeness in fact, of Warner Baxter, who plays the role in both guises. Elinor Glyn, ablest living fabricator of Sunday-supplement fiction, made it all up and did a job which, in spite of its puerile aspects, has possibilities as entertainment. What makes Suck Men Are Dangerous silly is not the plot, acting or direction, but the awful dialog, written by Ernest Vajda. Specimen lines...
...Many of the ablest leaders of the labor movement . . . pay little heed to the church. ... It hardly can be said that the church is an influential factor in the lives of the working classes as a whole...
...recognized as one of the ablest lecturers of the University and his reputation as a scholar attracted many graduate students to Harvard...
...concentration of the facilities for work in any special field into one institution, which would confine its efforts to research in that particular field, would enable such research to be carried out systematically by the ablest body of men which could be assembled. It would obviate the parallelism which exists in the graduate schools and research laboratories of the country's colleges, and would enable science to pool its resources. Perhaps even most important it would simplify the administration of the modern college, which of recent years has become a monster on unwieldy proportions...