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...General protection against unfair foreign competition, owing to lower wages, longer hours or depreciated cur- rency, to any industry which can prove itself substantial and efficient...
...severe in his condemnation of the sins of the Anglican Church. He finds its cowardice colossal-for it has attacked drunkenness and sexual immorality, but has, like a cur, kept safely away from dangerous enemies such as the greed of Mammon and the lust of Mars. Nevertheless, he contends that the Anglican Church (like the Eastern Orthodox) is apostolic, whereas the Roman Catholic Church and the Evangelical Churches (Baptist, Presbyterian, etc.) have departed so far from the faith that they are not apostolic. He sees some prospect for union with the Eastern Churches, but none with the others. Finally...
...this film with the sounding mallet of melodrama. The purpose of the plan is obviously to provide campaign material for the emancipation of the mail slaves; by its banality it serves another cause equally well-the cause of those who detest the rank old-fashioned type of hiss and cur melodrama...
...tragedies of the art of acting that when the last cur tain falls there is nothing to hold the expression of a great personality for future generations. Sarah Bern hardt is gone, and those who do not hold the impress of her dynamic genius on the tables of reminiscence can know her only as a cloudy legend, obscured by time and by the many puzzles presented by her career. The divine Sarah represented the highest achievement in emotional act ing. She was handicapped with an appearance which, while preserving its youth with phenomenal tenacity, was never strictly beautiful...
...plainly the point of view of the particular individuals in "Three Soldiers" which has aroused the ire of your reviewer. How long since an artist has been compelled by any canon of literature to choose for his creatures only paragons of virtue? Have we not had cur war books from the point of view of those who gloried in the slaughter, the propaganda attempts to make war attractive, the sort of thing which is perfectly "safe" to issue in wartime, at least to commissioned officers? Shall we agree that these are greater works of art simply because they tell what...