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...enormous (300,000) crowd at Aintree were the Prince of Wales who climbed down an embankment from his train to escape the crush; a boisterous young farmer named Agnew who tried to clear the 16-ft. water jump in front of the grandstand and fell in; John...
...this fellow he not only hated prunes he wanted to ABOLISH them to crush the very germ out and gee whiz we had a swell machine on the stage with colored lights and the pits came out the end like bullets out of a machine-gun against a copper gong. . . . Bill Glackens* always was the villain, and he comes on with a long mustache covered with furs looking rich as hell. Lucy Moore spurns him 'cause he wants the machine as a prune pitter to make pies but wait a minute you haven't heard anything there...
...delusions in the mind of the unthinking average voter can be combatted only by instilling in his mind counter-delusions. Explain the situation to him in words of one syllable and in a light favorable to his economic aspirations. In short, appeal to his natural prejudices; by demagogic illogic crush the demogogues...
...tasty course to Boston's exceedingly tempting menu of cinematic entertainments this week. Despite its pretentions and somewhat sickening title the film is one of simple and genuine amusement. The pretty, nicely romantic working girl (very well portrayed by the capable Claudette Colbert) is aided out of a subway crush by the handsome scion of one of England's best families--she doesn't realize the lofty position of the young man and unbothered by class considerations proceeds to fall quite completely in love with him. This puts a mild damper on her friendship with the likeable young newspaper...
Double-Header. Delayed two hours by the crush of holiday travel, pack-jammed with mail & passengers, including onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker. New York Central's fast Midnight Express (Columbus-Cleveland) was running with double-header locomotives near Delaware, Ohio when it shot out of a cut-off junction, just in time to catch the Eastern Mail on the main line. It took a wrecking crew with blow torches ten hours to get Engineer F. E. Springer's body out of the overturned second locomotive of the Mid night Express...