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...Riffraff," Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy in the title role, is an expert melodrama of bombs, brains, brute stupidity, strike agitation, and escape from prison. The director makes use of every stock situation known to cinema, from the working girl sweetheart and the caveman boyfriend with neolithic brawn and paleolithic brains, to the sirens and flying bullets that scream after the escaped prisoner. But from beginning to end there is not one single cliche. In addition to this remarkable achievement, the picture tells a passionate love story without one word of love. Spencer Tracy, the tough...
...debating club as an indispensable part of the college, the ones attacked would swarm about him and riddle him with piercing arguments. The clash of two bodies armed with football pads is more exciting than the clash of two intellects armed with barbs of perspicacity. The glamor of brute conflict, of blaring horns and rousing cheers, can never be replaced by the subtle encounters of the mind. But colleges are institutions of learning, and thus they are most truly represented by their debating teams...
...Under conditions of law and order they would be inexcusable. The fact that New Yorkers are rightfully grateful to their commissioner merely indicates that New York, like most large American cities, is not yet fully civilized. As soon as the rule of law has been established, as soon as brute force need no longer be met with force, Mr. Valentine's methods will be no longer justified. Until then, more, honor and more power...
...order to climb into the saddle, you put your knee on the brute's side, twist a bit, swing the right leg over its back, and--there you are, if you're lucky...
Cartoon of the year ($500) was by Ross A. Lewis in the Milwaukee Journal. It showed a huge brute labeled "Violence" straddling the fence between a factory and a mob of strikers. Caption: "Sure, I'll Work for Both Sides." Editorial of the year: none...