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...death rate had been the lowest on record, that he would cooperate with them in enacting "constructive legislation looking toward the upbuilding of Philippine economic independence," that they should modify the laws for leasing the public domain so as to encourage rubber planting. He summarized with a great flourish...
...Signal Tower. Simple, straightforward roles, played without a flourish, directed by anyone with some feeling for proportion and suspense, make passable pictures. Run them off in a mountainous, shaggy, backwoods setting, make Wallace Beery the villain, Rockcliffe Fellowes the hero, Virginia Valli the heroine, and you may turn out the best deep-chested melodrama of the year. That is what Director Clarence Brown did, the story chosen being that of an honest, overalled signalman and his wife, whose hair-raising vicissitudes, domestic and vocational, are caused by a hulking railroad sheik. Punished once for snatching kisses, this sheik chooses...
...Editor of The Atlantic Monthly is one of the hardest-working and most modest of editors. He has brought a staid Boston publication to a circulation almost unbelievably large for that type of magazine.* Under his eye "The Atlantic Monthly Press" was born and is starting to flourish. The Living Age, now published from his offices, prospers. The Independent, in which he has no actual ownership, under a new group of owners and editors has moved to Massachusetts and is now making its home in the Atlantic offices under Mr. Sedgwick's benignant glances...
...Springfield nine furnished the dopesters the biggest upset of the season when they walked over the unbeaten Boston College team by an 8 to 3 score last Thursday. Arriving at University Heights without any flourish of trumpets, without any imposing victories to their credit, the Springfield players went to work in business-like fashion and completely outplayed their over-confident opponents. Gates, a slow-ball pitcher of slight stature, buffaloed the B. G. sluggers throughout. He is out to add to his fame this afternoon at the expense of the Crimson...
...Among us politicians the quack and the trickster still flourish and the printed word is their most powerful weapon. Would that you (the publishers) adopt some schedule rates for such political advertising and would decline to publish the appeal of the liar and charlatan. Close your columns to the claptrap and buncombe of the politicians. Scorn our words when you know that we are uttering falsehoods, just as you scorn the dishonest advertiser...