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...hero deserts the priesthood for the stage. It is the shabby stage of Tip Thompson's variety show on the Texas border. In its centre is Marietta, gir! of his seminar}' village. She deserts his studious quietness for the more flagrant physical attractions of Dedaux, the Knife Thrower. "The Saint" has lost his girl and lost...
...just as good fuel, but there is no fire to energize the matter into power. The moral heat which loaned his war novels a high pitch of earnestness has spent itself in ashes. To convince a world iddled with the evils and inconsistencies of popular government of the already flagrant crimes of Rivera's dictatorship, will not be difficult, but, for the while at least, moral indignation is exhausted, and it is doubtful whether any crusading zeal will spring up in response to Ibanez's call...
...They demand, in place of the decisions of certain municipal councils which are in flagrant opposition to the will of the parents, to be allowed to make known what is the will of the people in the questions which concern the Church and the schools...
...Lady Astor caused one of her House of Commons-scenes by persisting in ignoring the Chair during debate. Her violation of the Speaker's ruling that she was "out of order" became so flagrant that the inimitable "Dave" Kirkwood at length called to the Speaker to ask her to leave the House. At this her ladyship sat 'down, but continued her protests from her sitting posture...
...members of the American Medical Association-in convention assembled at Chicago-concluded their annual session. Cheating. The chairman of the section on medicine opened the meeting of that section with a fierce invective against unscientific and unscrupulous prescribing by a limited number of physicians. "One of the most flagrant instances of irrational therapeutics," said Dr. Joseph A. Capps, Chicago, "is the abuse of the physician's license to prescribe alcohol. It is well-known that most of the liquor dispensed by druggists on physicians' prescriptions is not intended for the treatment of the sick. Whatever we, as individuals...