Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bricklayer and before that as a hod-carrier, the young Benito revealed the titanic spiritual vigor which later made him master of Italy. Few are possessed of so little "hindsight" that they cannot detect the hand of the present Dictator in a letter which the hodman wrote to a fellow laborer on Sept. 3, 1902. "Dear Friend, "On Saturday, together with a painter out of employment, I went to Orbe-to get taken on as a manual laborer. I found work and on Monday, the 14th, I began: eleven hours' work in the day at 32 centesimi the hour...
Agronomic item from Club-Fellow (reputation monger of the Town Topics school) : "The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Jardine, has his family established for the summer at Southampton,* L. I., the first time he or she have [sic] ever deigned to take on a fashionable resort. We are waiting to see how far his official position gets the Jardines into the social life at Southampton...
...discuss the situation in a scathing paragraph: "The actors, the mimes, and the deceiving and infamous joculators are given money to get drunk on, while the poor of the Church are dying in the agonies of hunger " It was a pretty pass. People, apparently, would rather hear some pinchbeck fellow gurgle a roulade than listen to the best constructed sermon. When, therefore, the guildsmen of prosperous towns began to give simple dramas, inspired by the magnificent theatricality of Mass, and evolved from Bible story, prelates everywhere came gradually to value their spiritual uses. Soon Herod was thumping his spear...
...Juan (John Barrymore). The screen version of this good old story tells of a beautiful youth admirably trained to enjoy and deceive women. The young fellow goes his cynical way with rare abandon and success until, one evening in medieval Rome, he meets a young lady who is reluctant to surrender herself on ten minutes' acquaintance. Such an astonishing revelation of honor in the female sex transforms Don Juan. In fact, the lover of hundreds decides to marry. Before he can carry off his bride-to-be, however, the irresistible Juan must snatch her from the clutches...
...work "Inness Jr." Last year one of his pictures, The Only Hope, an elaborate cartoon of the world's return to Christ, set the New York Chamber of Commerce simmering. Chamberman Irving T. Bush wanted to send the picture on tour as a tract, but some of his fellow members insisted that the title, applied to a pale Christ lifted above a shrapnel-spattered court, would be an insult to the Jews. Newspapermen described the controversy, divines dealt with the subject; critics alone kept silent. There was not much to say about technique, for over all the able...