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...name of WALLACE REID woven in lurid letters throughout its manufacture. Wallace Reid, screen star, died last Fall from the effects of a drug habit contracted among the noisome swamps of Hollywood Society. Human Wreckage is produced by " The Los Angeles Anti-Narcotic League " as the moral epitaph to round out the cheerless fable of Reid's death. Mrs. Wallace Reid is the production's star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blah! | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

...food. Politeness availing nothing, they finally resorted to force and sabotage. Since they had not enough bread, they hurled what they had; since dishes were bare, they broke them. Finally they raised their Jolly Roger, a sign on which a skull and bones had been drawn with the epitaph underneath: "This man ate at Commons." While one must make liberal allowance for mob contagion and the human weakness for kicking, yet when five hundred students join their voices in the chorus of woe there must be something to cause the ferment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPULSO BY SOUP | 3/14/1923 | See Source »

...this - poor devil - be your epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Public Service | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

Great nations did not fight this war to make the world safe for conformity. When Thomas Jeffersan wrote his own epitaph he disdained to put on it any external honors. He did not mention that he had been Secretary of State, Vice-President or President of the United States. He told only that he had written two documents in favor of human liberty and had founded an institution for the higher learning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 2/2/1920 | See Source »

...talking about. The wistful melody of the same contributor's verses have somewhat of this same defect of vagueness. H. Hagedorn '07 in his perilous attempt in an "Ode to Nature" is more successful both in form and thought than he had any right to expect. The "Epitaph on John the Orangeman" is exceedingly happy, though it may be questioned whether this is appropriate praise for an epitaph. "Paolo and Paris," by R. E. Rogers '09, is a dignified tribute to the persistence of the spell exercised by these perennial themes. In the editorial pages the new board makes...

Author: By W. A. Neilson ., | Title: Review of Current Monthly | 9/27/1906 | See Source »

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