Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LULU BELLE-Lenore Ulric in a story of a bad little colored wench. Sometimes shocking, often shoddy, always interesting. CRAIG'S WIFE-In which a husband very sensibly decides that if he cannot smoke in the parlor he will find a home elsewhere. THE GREAT GOD BROWN-Eugene O'Neill's agonized fancy about the purchase and sale of a man's soul...
...Speaker: "Such an epithet cannot be allowed in the House of Commons. The Right Honorable gentleman from West Ham must withdraw it or leave the House...
...Road to Mandalay (Lon Chaney). Good old-fashioned explosives cannot be downed. If you take an evil man and bring him upon his daughter on the point of going bad herself there is bound to be drama. Set this story in a Singapore dive, with yellow and brown wickedness all around and the atmosphere is perfect. Particularly when Lon Chaney plays the bad man with an unsightly cataract on one eye. You may not believe but you cannot resist...
...from reason and at the same time preserve science from skepticism, that Kant paraded methodically under the lindens at Konigsberg. He accomplished his task and inaugurated the era of critical philosophy by showing: that not all knowledge is sensory, Space and Time being a priori; that while matter its.elf cannot be known, its existence can be known, its laws known as fixed; that we are born with mental categories from which there is no escape, categories implying an imperative morality and a necessity for religion. There followed the massive metaphysical webs of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel in Germany. Arthur Schopenhauer...
COUNT BRUGA - Ben Hecht- Boni & Liveright ($2). Author Hecht is a rowdy. Often he is also a wit; sometimes, a philosopher. He has lavished all three talents on this latest volume, and if you cannot stand rowdies, do not read it. If you can stand them, you are certain to double up now and again over the libidinous antics of Jules Ganz, alias the "Count" (for whom, it is said, Author Hecht's friend and playmate, Poet Maxwell Bodenheim, furnished a vague original...