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...lipped, long-suffering heroine. When the daughter is deserted in pregnancy by her shallow, pedantic lover, only the mother is able to pierce the hollow censure of society, and acquit her of guilt. The father is brutalized. He is transformed from a lazy, ne'er-do-well, ignorant, strutting braggart to a despicably small man intent upon upholding his supposititious good name. Having run the family into crushing debt on the strength of an inheritance that was never to be realized, he curses out his daughter in the roundest of terms, and goes out to get drunk for the last...
...months a new character was needed and Mrs. Hoople's husband, who "had been gone for nigh on ten years," suddenly appeared. At first Hoople was a grotesque, sawed-off figure not much taller than his little Nephew Alvin. Gradually Hoople grew into a genial, full-sized, bulbous braggart, dominated "Our Boarding House." N. E. A. boosted the cartoon's distribution until it now ranks among the first ten comics...
...Christian charity he thumped for the National Union for Social Justice, his organization for ''restoring America to the Americans." After roasting Bernard Mannes Baruch and the "lories of high finance," he declared: "I am characterized as a revolutionary for raising my voice. . . . With the logic of a braggart I have been challenged to divest myself of my priestly vocation if I wish to participate in national affairs. Does our conception of Americanism . . . cling to the outworn theory of the divine right of kings by which is implied that the affairs of good government . . . must be surrendered into...
Japan's greatest braggart is Minister of Education Genji Matsuda. Presented to the Wartime Prime Minister of Great Britain, he promptly cabled to Japan "THE LLOYD GEORGE OF THE EAST MET THE LLOYD GEORGE OF THE WEST TODAY AND TALKED POLITICS OVER...
Some time ago Braggart Matsuda surpassed himself in the august presence of the Genro (Elder Statesman) Prince Saionji, supreme arbiter of Japanese politics and chief adviser to the Throne. With a twist of phrase Mr. Matsuda implied equality between himself and Prince Saionji, caused the Genro to burst out laughing...