Word: allâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...under an additional disadvantage, for we have lost a large number of our best parliamentarians and fighting men. Our former leader, Mondell, will not be with us, nor will Fess, nor Campbell, nor Walsh, nor Stafford, nor Greene, nor Kelley, nor Fordney, nor Reavis, nor?the peer of them all???the late James R. Mann. These were the men who bore the brunt of every battle, and their places will be difficult indeed to fill...
...Significance. Life seen with exquisite clarity, subtlety, thoughtfulness, humor, sometimes with scorn or sorrow, but never with spite or despair. Unerring felicity of word and line?work so beautifully, unobtrusively apt and accomplished that beside it most contemporary prose seems careless and shoddy. And yet the technique is not all???is merely an instrument?is never brittle?the insight pierces deep and is very clear. A world built up of tiny, crystalline fragments?but a world that will remain when many great fictional constellations now spinning in the literary void have expired like wet fireworks...
...most corrupt and interesting characters of a corrupt and interesting time, unimportant. As for any inflammatory content?one can think off-hand of half-a-dozen recent popular and unindicted successes that far surpass it in "frankness"?it has no cheap tricks of titillation about it at all???and a review in. the New York Evening Post even complained of supposed expurgations in the English version. Dr. Carl Van Doren of Columbia University has declared the book to be "the most finished piece of writing published in the United States...
AREN'T WE ALL???Delightful drawing-room comedy offering Cyril Maude wide scope as a charming old titled rake who parks his brand-new sweeties in the British Museum...
Take Theda Bara, for example, " When she came out on the stage," writes Helen M. Foster in Movie Weekly, "I said to my friend that surely could not be Theda." The friend said nothing, apparently?he knew his place. But it was Theda after all???the rogue! "She asked how many wanted her to keep on playing the Vampire role. [Tremendous applause.] She then asked how many wanted her to play the good girl part. [The same applause again.] "Confusing for Theda," we should say. But Miss Foster has a more definite opinion. " I do hope she keeps...