Word: buts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The New Babylon (Amkino). In mood and technique, this makes pictures like General Crack look like amateur theatricals, but it is inferior as entertainment. The difference is a matter of intention. The Amkino producers were not interested in making this product salable but in expressing a dogma passionately clear and...
Harold Fowler McCormick, Chicago farm machinery man, and his sister Mrs. Anita McCormick Elaine, testified in Santa Barbara, Cal., about the mental health and care of their brother, Stanley McCormick, whose wife was trying to change his doctor and oust the brother and sister as co-executors of his $50...
Samuel Insull of Chicago, potent public utilitarian, in an address before several hundred U. S. reserve officers, traced the trail to inevitable war. Said he: "I will tell you that it is highly possible for war to come. Oh, it may not come in my time; I am getting near...
Hallucinations among the insane are not the result of physical changes in the brain, but the result of profound changes in the viewpoint of the patient, who tries to rationalize his own mental condition.- Dr. Henri Claude, University of Paris.
Undoubtedly, the mating of two persons with marked similar talent in music, art or politics will produce offspring endowed with the same talent. But, "clanbred talent" tends to produce experts with a decided lack of understanding of things outside their own sphere. Such progeny are likely to be dull and...