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Moreover, in France there does not appear to be a Ramsey MacDonald to step immediately to the foreground of ministers so admirable suited for their parts as was the case in England; M. Berriot, it is true, commands the loyalty of the great French moderate group who really made possible the downfall of M. Poincare; but that he will be able to bring the more Radical gentlemen into line is still a matter of conjecture. And his apparent unpreparedness for success does not indicate any great confidence in his power...
...moment). To look back a bit, there was the Heresy number of the "Advocate." Then "The Fool" with his rather silly Overcoat Hall came to town--at the theatre. Mrs. Fisher rendered a superb translation of Papini's "Life of Christ" and for a time that was in the foreground. The turmoil started by the bishops in Texas found an echo in the college world after the Indianapolis Conference last December, at which it was discovered again that Harvard is a perfectly godless place; and lot of people are now doing themselves good (probably) by praying for us. Altogether quite...
...several other poses; while there were a number of photo-graphs from the movie The Queen of Sin in which the Count was purported to have taken part as one of 80,000 extras, with such captions as: "And who is the intrepid horseman in the foreground, waving aloft the spear? Can it be our hero? It cannot. If, however, you have patience and a strong magnifying glass you may be able to locate him, for the arrow [several hundred yards in the background] may indicate his approximate position." Next the "other women" began to appear. Then a lady...
...existence of a quietly functioning "birth control clinic" at the Fifth Ave. (Manhattan) office of the American Birth Control League, combined with the agitation over a clinic in Chicago (TIME, Dec. 3) and the anticipated clash over birth control in the 68th Congress have again placed in the foreground of public attention one of the most vexed and, from whatever standpoint considered, one of the most important of medico-social problems...
...largest canvas in the world is being used by Renimel, French artist, for his great panorama of the battle of Château-Thierry. Life-size American soldiers will appear in the foreground, with the river, town, surrounding hills and the enemy in perspective. It will be exhibited in Philadelphia...