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...makes herself as odious as any little girl who has yet appeared in cinema. Among the other children concerned, major acting honors in These Three go to plump little Marcia Mae Jones, as Rosalie, Mary Tilford's unwilling accomplice. Good shot: Mary blackmailing Rosalie into corroborating her baseless story by threatening to accuse her of stealing...
...Newshawks pressed the President for confirmation of Wall Street rumors that more dollar tinkering was soon to be expected, received blunt assurance that the rumors were "just another of those things" -baseless...
...Rome from Berlin on cabled orders from Publisher Hearst himself hopped trouble-shooting Hudson ("Buzz") Hawley. He found rumors buzzing that Emanuel had been "shot in the back as a spy." These jittery reports proved baseless when Correspondent Emanuel defended himself wittily before a Fascist court in which he was accused of nothing more serious than "obtaining" information of a military character. This information had been innocently posted to Bureau Chief Emanuel by a minor Italian stringman acting on his own initiative in ignorance of present drastic Italian war news curbs. Admitting that he received this letter. Correspondent Emanuel chirped...
...Edward of Wales another buzz on the old saw. Said H.R.H. in welcoming to St. James's Palace the Council for Relations with Other Countries: "Better traveling facilities abroad since the War and an improvement in the manners and attitude of our tourists have done much to kill the baseless legends about us. All Britons do not have prominent teeth, nor do they all wear knickerbockers...
Most college students, the recent Literary Digest poll indicates, would not engage in an invasion of the territory of another nation, but would take part in a "defensive war." A fine but altogether baseless, distinction apparently still exists in semi-academic circles between these two types of armed conflict. Liberty, the home, and the loved ones remain linked in imagination, with chivalrous sorties against brutal...