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...living will read the Bible in "United States" and will not read the Bible in the King's English? then the Goodspeed version will be justified both as good business and true religion. Its plea before the high court of literature has never been entered; its defenders simply beg the court's pardon...
...Gentleman of Leisure. The diamonds are stolen again?no, beg pardon, its pearls, this time?three strings of them?one genuine and two artificial. An incredible burglar says " demm" and " dese" and " dey " on the slightest provocation. Fashionable life at Bayshore is full of butlers. Sigrid Holmquist is very pretty. Jack Holt has a nice mustache. A villain is known by his white, white spats, etc. Which may sound incoherent, but is as faithful a report as possible of as chaotic a cinema inanity as has flickered out the storehouse for some time...
...noisy apostle of poetical jazz. He explains his love for Egypt; his admiration for Poe; his forbears; his reason for going on the road, a new beggar-troubadour, trading his rhymes for bread: "I was told by the Babbits on every hand I must quit being an artist or beg. So I said: 'I will beg!' ... It was an act of spiritual...
...author's heart can be seen cracking. He is a little over-sentimental, a little over-pessimistic about Europe. He loves his fellow-man with a consuming devotion. He is almost incoherent in his eagerness to tell the world what is the matter with it and to beg it to do something about itself...
...cause I have never betrayed during thirty-two years of strenuous public life". He has made a brilliant popular non-partisan speech. He belongs to no party except himself and he relies on the appeal of his indispensable personality. He has been criticized and laughed at; excellent! He will beg some one else to take his place and will enjoy a much-needed rest. Only, of course, he will then look on; - "and the tangle gets a little more, and the fumbling gets a little more pronounced." The man who would "hang the Kaiser in 1918" will...