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...hand and forcibly escort him home, his ill-fitting uniform bristling with extemporaneous decorations, is the stuff which makes Hail the Conquering Hero one of the year's most ingratiating pictures. When grateful townspeople solemnly burn the mortgage on the old Truesmith homestead and make plans to erect a suitable monument in the town square, Woodrow's misery seems to have reached its bearable limit. But it touches new depths when, in one of the most uproarious political campaigns in cinema history, the desperately reluctant Woodrow is nominated for Mayor...
Operating at Revere were Red Naddy, Dick Mounts, Tom Morton, and Bill McCracken. Limiting their activities to Ruppert and roller coasters, they had a picture taken at a bar just to prove that you can stand erect and not astride someone at some places in this park...
Biased History? What immediately concerned the Senator was: 1) the "racial hatred insidiously instilled into the minds of French Canadians" by a biased teaching of Canadian history; 2) the secret French Canadian "Order of Jacques Cartier," whose leaders he accused of plotting to erect a French, Catholic and corporative state in Canada...
...upper floors of bleak Norman seaside houses. The barge opens its mouth. Not in a neat, eager, clattering rush as people have sometimes imagined, but wretchedly, one by one, crabwise the crouching men disembark, hip-deep, and begin to wade ashore. Their officer, at the blunt bow, stands erect and unprotected. As, one by one, he gestures his men forward, he is almost smiling...
...says Mumford, was his "indifference" to art, philosophy, science and "political improvement." But Jesus is "hardly responsible," Author Mumford believes, for the "little men who guarded Jesus' memory, took him, drained off the precious life blood of his spirit, mummified his body . . . and over his remains . . . proceeded to erect . . . the Christian Church...