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...suggest that they had settled the argument long ago, were merely awaiting a strong lead to follow. As more and more steel companies were added to the list, absences became conspicuous. It was clear that many companies had already taken their 10% off wages. "We are living in a fool's paradise," President Farrell said a few months ago, "if we think that every steel manufacturer in the United States has maintained . . . current rate of wages...
Author Aldington has done his job up brown: by the time he gets through with his characters there is not a single one you can stomach. Georgie is pathetic but repulsive; Purfleet is a cad; Geoffrey a fool; all the rest run the gamut of knavery and oafishness. In a supererogatory epilog Aldington underlines his tale: England is on the downgrade, nothing can help her. the War killed off the best, delivered the rest into the strangling clutch of "human weeds...
...with daggers and fountain pens (TIME, Feb. 16). In France they punch each other on the nose, have been known to use a dog whip (TIME, Nov. 17 ). In Poland they hurl inkwells, kick each other's shins (TIME, March 10, 1930). But in Mexico they do not fool. As Deputy Ruiz rushed forward, one shot banged out (witnesses later swore it came from the visitors' gallery), followed immediately by a general drawing and firing of guns by Mexico's lawmakers. Manuel Ruiz died on the steps of the speaker's tribune with eight bullets...
...names for the characters whom they impersonate in their pictures. Funny man Laurel was understudy to Charlie Chaplin when they both belonged to Fred Carno's London comedy company. When Mack Sennett saw Charlie Chaplin and Chaplin left the company to go into cinema, Laurel considered him "a fool for leaving." In 1917, playing a vaudeville engagement in Los Angeles, Stanley Laurel met Chaplin again, was persuaded to try a movie contract himself...
...uptown for shore leave, and they beg cigarets, sugar, meat, bread, shoes, anything except money, from the lads they snare. They don't want rubles. They are no good to them since they can't buy anything with them, and they don't dare fool around with valuta, as the G. P. U. is very suspicious over any Russian possessing foreign money...