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...against the speak-easy and the bootlegger, nor are the causes of that reaction difficult to trace. These institutions have provided the people, in most cases, with a brand of liquor potable only in defiance, and they have done it with bad grace, at an exalted price level, and amidst surroundings which were, except in the largest cities, incredibly sordid. The bootlegger, whenever he advanced in his calling to the point of professionalism, became a public enemy in the way that any large class outside the law does; he settled his differences outside the law, to the accompaniment of slaughter...
...Patigian designed the altar at one extremity of this lake, which is an heroically shaped Owl-the Club's insignia ("Weaving spiders come not here"). Here the captured effigy of care is oared from across the lake in a medieval barge, and laid on a funeral pyre, where amidst much colorful ritual, he is cremated, to bother man no more-until next year. He is not buried...
Lacking the technical facilities of Hollywood studios the producers of F. P. 1 were forced to photograph their scenes against real backgrounds. Early scenes, purporting to show the construction of the sea-drome, were taken amidst the teeming activity of one of Germany's largest shipyards For the completed seadrome a floating dock was borrowed, effectively remodeled, towed out into the Baltic. There it did much to substantiate the arguments against real seadromes. In the first storm encountered it snapped its anchor cables. For the flying deck scenes, for which the dock was unsuited, the company chartered...
Earnest Heminwgay contributes the last of a series of stories to this issue of Scribners, improving, as before, the general tone of the copy. The story, "Give Us a Prescription, Doctor," is laid in a hospital in the Southwest. From amidst a faint susurrus of hospital noises, broken English, and the squawling of a patient's radio, ideas emerge with a morbid and startling clarity; much as one may question Mr. Hemingway's philosophy, he cannot help admiring the technical ability and power which enables him to present it so vigorously and subtly. In the present instance, however, the effect...
...outcome of an orgy of so called "scientific" realism. Professor White head shows how narrow and shortsighted is this interpretation of the nature of things; he demonstrates how only a colossal blindness could load one to tenore the fact that Civilization is essentially a humanly-created achievement of harmony amidst the brute Force of Nature; he tells the amazing story of how abstract ideas become men's ideals and how men's ideals become realized in the material forms of the world. In short be offers ideals to a world which has so tragically despaired of them...