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...meal Japan is making on China, the efforts of Capitalism to control industrial production (see cuts.), Roosevelt's troubles with the Constitution ("The sacred right of everything to stew in its own juice"), the Ethiopian rampage of Mussolini, the Hitler pomposities all serve Cartoonist Low as good grist for his good mill...
...screen at its best can fail to be captivated by the charm, simplicity, and haunting loveliness of "Poil de Carotte," current attraction at the Fine Arts. Throughout this intensely arresting film one is aware of an earnest sincerity and gripping reality which afford a pleasing diversion from the superficial grist of the Hollywood mill. Rarely does a picture of this sort, dealing as it does with an acute psychological problem, meet with success from the several standpoints of characterization, sustained interest, and insight into the foibles of human behavior...
...trifles into folksy copy. When the Guests put their oleander out in the spring, it was duly recorded. It made the column again when they brought it in in the autumn. The children (Eddie Jr. & Janet), Mrs. Guest's pickles, a friend's fancy vest, were all grist for the rhymester's mill...
...have done to the Communists said to have burned down our Reichstag, but what would those same professors say if Communists burned down Oxford? To anyone who knows Putzy the whole matter was plainly one of insufficient smelling salts, but British Justice was obliged to grind this Nazi grist exceeding small. The eminent King's Counsel for the Daily Express, Sir Patrick Hastings, cross-examined Dr. Hanfstaengl last week with a view to adducing that his language is often intemperate. "I am suggesting to you," purred Sir Patrick, "that directly people asked you questions about Communists you were...
...things that served last week to remind Squire Roosevelt of Hyde Park that he was on vacation from his job. But vacation or no vacation, he was still President of the U. S., still a practicing politician half of whose acts and more than half of whose hospitality was grist for newshawks...