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...mediaeval reputation, Virgil was vulgared into a necromancer. Although to the learned few he was "poeta doctus," and was through the Fourth Eclogue the cherished prophet of the churchmen, the common legends centered about magic of a more obvious kind, and in them Virgil made glass talismans to confound the flies of Naples...
...rest with the individual states; and here, oddly enough, there is a good deal of encouragement to be found in Pennsylvania. Liquor stores in the state are operated as a state owned monopoly; in spite of the direct predictions when the system was inaugurated, it has survived to confound its critics, for it has not only been run without corruption and with a substantial profit to the state, but it has also made a good brand of whiskey available at a cost of one dollar a fifth. The example of Pennsylvania stands as a rebuke and a challenge to both...
...confound Mr. Robart, there now comes the announcement of the formation of a Harvard faculty committee to assist in the work of Cambridge unemployment relief. Aid is offered in the tangible medium of service and currency. The committee premises complete cooperation with Cambridge authorities in soliciting contributions from the faculty for the purpose of alleviating the condition of the unemployed. In short, it does not conform to Mr. Robart's idea of a university committee, and faculty members of Harvard would do well to further destroy Mr. Robart's rather mistaken conception by contributing to the neighborhood relief fund...
Strangers May Kiss (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is one of those handsomely staged, well-acted, rather silly productions which confound critics who try to reveal their silliness. The story is by Ursula Parrott, author of famed Ex-Wife; it will probably gross several million dollars. Norma Shearer is a working girl who says, "A girl may kiss and ride on as well as any man." Yet when Neil Hamilton, her journalist lover, companion of an illicit weekend in Mexico, says a casual goodbye to her, she is seen in one of those rapid sequences indicating a shattering of feminine morale...
...Confound their politics...