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...further in a similar line and arrive at a truth concerning contemporary literature of the journalistic breed: the tabloid idea is misrepresenting everything. In their desire for the graphic, the colorful, the papers are forgetting the approximation of the truth which is possible of their attainment. Heckled by moving pictures and novels the colleges are yet able to maintain their own self respect. But it is time for a period of temporary repose when the college world can for the nonce find that the world outside expects other than a circus parade every time that two undergraduates leave their college...
...Barrier. Rex Beach's old novel has been strenuously resuscitated with icebergs, shipwrecks and Lionel Barrymore, all good. It is an Alaskan tale with an army captain and a half-breed girl in the centre of the screen most of the time. Stone, sea water and primitive emotions make sound routine melodrama...
...land home was at Miramar, Calif., a 10,000-acre ranch, the natural rugged beauty of which he had been careful to preserve much as he preserved his own natural strength and powers from the debility that riches and refinement often breed. He had started life as a poor boy, an English book-binder's 13th child. He had gone to the public schools of Rushville, Ill., worked on the family farm, then gone, at 18, to be his half-brothers' office boy on the Detroit Tribune for $3 a week...
...parody number of the Police Gazette. Such obvious decadence of discretion is incredible. As President Pringle himself remarked on reading the number. "I do not understand this at all." We do not understand it either. The police have good reason to complain. But better days may come, corruption may breed incoruption and Brockton clear this blot from its shield. In the meantime the Blimp must do its best to correct its fault by a real, clean, good number...
...term "hobby horse" is of great antiquity and uncertain origin. It has been used to denote: 1) The "Irish hobby," a breed of small horse trained to an easy gait. 2) The costume worn by a medieval actor to represent both man and horse, and consisting of a framework with a horse's head and tail casing the actor's hips. 3) An early form of bicycle or tricycle. 4) A prostitute. (Webster's New International Dictionary...