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...characters talk as no man talked, act as no man acted, exist in a blazing phantasmal world where almost anything is almost sure to happen. Lacking a word, he coins one; where History or Science runs counter to his conception, he remakes History and Science. He is sheer imaginative flame run wild like a cosmic prairie fire. You can laugh at him-you cannot deny his vitality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Super-Man* | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

Such events, like tongues of flame bursting from smoldering embers, have more than once shown the covert development taking place. So far this deeper significance has been ignored. It may be that the future will be more fruitful of solution by the adoption of a policy of dispassionate recognition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REAL ISSUE | 10/7/1924 | See Source »

...position as librarian to marriage with a German Colonel (Noah Beery) ; to the arms of a young Lieutenant (Ben Lyon) ; and finally to an unhappy ending. In the elaboration of the story the picture develops its highest values. By kindling a spark of interest that smoulders steadily, bursting into flame with the shrewdly-considered climax, it marks a notable achievement for director Dimitri Buchowetski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 1, 1924 | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

...scanty attire more than 100 men and women fled through the smoke-filled halls and escaped to the street, while firemen battled with great sheets of flame that swept in from the open sea at a velocity of sixty miles an hour. At the suggestion of the mayor, however, the indorsement was made unanimous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Journalese | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...Japan, hostile feeling toward the U. S. was fanned into flame by the Jingo press, reservist soldiers and Shinto priests. The latter, heads of the ancient religion of Japan, met in convention at the Meiji shrine, erected to the honor and glory of the father of the present Emperor, passed a resolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Hara-Kiri | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

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