Word: edict
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Lady Mary, champion woman aviator of 1927 by edict of the International League of Aviators, is taking the 6,000-mile trip from London to Cape Town solely for amusement-"to see how far I can go." She is taking her time, flies when she feels like it, even when that means (as it did at Marseilles) landing in a gale. She is flying a small plane, a baby Moth, popular with European amateurs. Near her destination are the gold and diamond mines of her husband...
...character. It was on top of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., that the Klan's 34 adventurous founders met on Thanksgiving Day, 1915, to swear their tremendous oath, but last week it was in stuffy meeting halls and hackneyed offices that Klansmen met to obey the following "edict" of Emperor and Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans...
...repetitious, childlike pomposity of this "edict" is not quite an accurate index of Wizard Evans' mental calibre, for with the edict went a rider. Wizard Evans, who gained his knowledge of human nature as a dentist, had invented the "Knights of the Forest" as a painless method of extracting $1 from each & every Klansman. Salaries had to be paid, and it would have been unwise to levy an unembellished assessment. The "Knights of the Forest," therefore, constituted an obligatory degree palliated by the following ritual...
...they reach new heights of hilarity which are diverting, if not side-splitting. In the war scenes we have a burlesque of "What Price Glory," "The Big Parade" and "Wings"; later, after the armistice, Raymond Hatton returns to America leaving his French sweetheart in charge of Wallace Beery. An edict that all young women marry immediately, or something similar, complicates things and Beery appropriates the woman in the case. Hatton come back and intrigue, duels and the hatching of a brood of ducks by Beery keeps the comedy of this fast team from losing impetus. See it if the jaded...
...magnanimous and tactful. It is an act that should make the wallets of exhibitors swell with good feeling. And Premier Mussolini is hardly likely to protest in favor of the newly accused culprits. The B'nai Brith magazine praises the "fine sensitiveness of the leaders" in passing such an edict. Only the captious will recall the coincidence that the majority of these leaders are themselves of faintly Hebraic name and appearance. As formulated by Will Hays, the edict in question was, "that no pictures be issued that could offend the Jew or cause the thoughtless to point the finger...