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...entire Soviet Union, has now been jailed on charges that he ordered Soviet scientists to castrate breeding bulls and inoculate cattle with cholera germs. Finally White Russia's recently executed Red Army commander, General Ieronim Petrovich Uborevich, was described last week as having been "little short of a fiend incarnate," while the railways, textile mills and collective farms of White Russia were reported "infested with Fascist spies and wreckers...
...article this morning on History and Literature, Mr. Elliot Perkins was described as "lazy". This seems to be a case of a transferred epithet; the term would apply rather to his tutees. No fiend for activity, Mr. Perkins nevertheless is energetic, alert, and a stimulating tutor. Sincerely Yours Tucker Dean...
...brilliant mathematician, Professor Barry. Barry has become a corpse, whereat it is brought to light that many of the Faculty members owe gambling debts to him, while he himself was trying to muscle in on the metropolitan numbers racket. The chief oft the numbers racket is a boy fiend of the professor's wife. Those are the elements; write the story your own way but the plot doesn't really matter. All that does count is that Overman is sufficiently much of an actor to make one of those clever mysteries movies realistic for a change. Perhaps that is because...
...over the vast stage. Sam Jaffe as the eternal Jewish cynic, Rosamond Pinchot as Bathsheba, Catherine Carrington as Ruth made themselves recognizable among the mobs of fellow-actors. Heard of but not recognized by many was pretty Florence Meyer, Backer Meyer's daughter, as an Egyptian princess, a fiend, a depraved woman...
...preposterous that the most powerful man in Eastern Asia should have been violently overpowered with the killing of 46 of his guards; lost his false teeth in the process; insisted upon reading the Bible during most of his 13 days' captivity at the hands of a "onetime dope fiend," Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang; and then should suddenly have returned by air to Nanking announcing that he himself was partly to blame for his own kidnapping and that the kidnappers had let him go partly because they had been much moved by reading some 50,000 words of his private...