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...banners beyond her present frontiers but back? never! . . . The German anti-Italian agitation is nefarious and ridiculous. I call it nefarious because it is based upon a tissue of lies which the Germans themselves know to be lies. I call it ridiculous because the Germans have thought to frighten our young proud Fascist Italy, which is not in the habit of being afraid of any one! . . . We are sufficiently insolent and explicit to substitute a new formula for an old one, since we are furthering the cause of truth and civilization and even of peace. Our new formula is this...
...Blackbird. Limehouse naturally gives Lon Chaney a chance to disguise himself with grotesquerie well calculated to frighten little children. Part of the time he is a benevolent bishop. Renee Adoree, the French girl of The Big Parade, is the heroine, capably enough. Mr. Chaney is always good, and his pictures are never watered with too obvious and too usual melodramatic sentiment...
People who believe in ghosts met last week in Paris-the International Spiritualist Congress. How to greet a ghost when you meet him, was one question that immediately arose. The French delegates said to say: "Welcome, friend." English folk present demurred, said to teach children so would be to frighten them of apparitions in advance...
...mobled in a large ulster, he stated that he did not like Sculptor Epstein's conception of Rima, the wood nymph. "Look at it. ... Did you ever see such a thing in the name of art? . . . It has a head like a criminal and its arms . . . monstrosity . . . frighten the sparrows. ..."So the sweet and often feeble voice of old Somerville Hague trickled like lymph through the June day. At 8 in the morning he began. At 8 in the evening, feeling that he had expressed himself, he bundled off home. Next day, Mr. George Bernard Shaw used a spare...
...late for my next class. Since that time, when feeling particularly optimistic. I have tried these gorgeous white elephants, but always with the same result. My handkerchief is somewhat small for a towel and I should like to recommend that these machines be turned over in Margery wherewith in frighten visitors to her seances, and some plebeian towels be substituted in their stead. Gurdon S. Howe...