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...doubt the patrician ladies would be delighted to see another generation of misinformed, prejudiced, plebeians, believing in a country which can do no wrong, and a noble death on the battlefield. No doubt they would like to see a curbing of those college professors whose teaching might lead to disillusionment and cynicism for a college education should contain no more than the uplifting benefits so characteristic of America's public school system Doubtless, too, this 42nd annual Continental Congress would have the fact concealed that the American Revolution was not a holy war led by the leading conservatives of their...
Clearly the policy of league formation will be settled on this battlefield, for should these relations, strained by vindictive verbal disagreements, be cemented, nothing can justly be considered beyond accomplishment in intercollegiate sporting circles. Yale News...
Hawk-nosed Lord Wellington used to figure the presence of Napoleon on a battlefield as worth 40,000 men to the French. Observers agreed last week that the presence of white-headed General Hans Kundt, onetime German imperial staff officer and de facto dictator of Bolivia, on the jungle battlefront of the Gran Chaco was worth at least 5,000 men to Bolivia. Following the hysterical, flower-strewn welcome to him in La Paz three weeks ago, a huge airplane was seen circling over the battlefield last week. Open-mouthed Bolivianos in their steaming trenches told each other that...
...send her." Central Park (First National). Written by a New York Sun theatrical reporter, Ward Morehouse. this picture exhibits Manhattan's largest pleasance. not as an outdoor nursery for perambulated babies, a sleeping porch for the tenement district and a cyuosure for sightseers, but as a battlefield of crime and bestiality, a sink of dissipation. The picture starts with a theft of hotdogs by two hungry, penniless young lovers. A pair of racketeers pretending to be detectives whisk the girl (Joan Blondell) away to the Central Park Casino, force her to aid their scheme for robbing the till...
...place they announced they had booked reservations for Europe. When it became clear that Director Storke would accede to nothing, Messrs. Pisart & Gutt sailed and the conference was officially ended, all copper companies were free to grab for all they could. Roan's Storke remained alone on the battlefield, told the U. S. Press his company was not alone to blame...