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Public-spirited citizens starved their cats. Municipal officials starved cats in the village pounds ?and an army of ravenous felines was released upon Mousedom. To no avail. Krazy Kat himself (or herself)** could have been no more ineffectual. Dick Whittington's cat, who rid an African kingdom of rats at one fell swoop, might have prevailed, but not the cats of Kern County. Rocking with glee, the newsgatherers told stories about cowardly cats fleeing to cover, proud cats ignoring such easy prey, big-hearted cats adopting families of mice. The ever-colorful New York World carried a report...
...other words, any methods or aids that we have discovered in preparing for examinations, or any help that we can give in pointing out the way to organize a mass of material or to sort the essential from the less important, are offered to those who wish to avail themselves of them. We are not competing with the tutoring schools or attempting to find a way to pass a course with a minimum of work. Indeed, experience has shown that often all a man needs is a little encouragement and a few simple suggestions at a moment when the amount...
Brussels Gathering of Great Avail...
...avail. She cuts his face with a whip. In a twinkling he appears as no less a figure than the "Red Shadow," leader of native insurgents. Masked, the Flaming Youth makes successful love in the desert fashion. In the East when a man claps his hands twice, slaves rush out, carry the designated women off to be bathed and anointed, then served up to their lord and master. Herein, the high producer clapped his hands and 90-odd chorines went to the showers. There is a mystery and a romance about the East. A huge cast, gorgeous settings, some good...
...have asked a banker 20 years ago for the financing of a cinema concern would have been of no avail. He had probably never heard of motion pictures. Or, if he had, he held them in contempt as grotesque novelties of penny arcades, honkytonks. And he classed the cinema entrepreneur as a probably illiterate and possibly dirty "outsider." Today the banker reaches out for cinema investments, which are all the more attractive because they represent a $1,500,000,000 amusement industry operated on a cash basis. Not one of the 45,000,000 people who in the course...