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...time when roughly $5,000,000 had been spent on the Florida folly, $7,000,000 on the Passamaquoddy scheme, and a good size town, called rather redundantly--Quoddy, had been crected, doesn't hold with what the late Will Rogers would have called "just plain, common, hoss-sense...
Barbary Coast (Samuel Goldwyn) is a gaslight and "hoss''-pistol melodrama of San Francisco in the gold-rush days, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, directed by Howard Hawks, acted by Edward G. Robinson, Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea. That it somehow fails to justify expectations is due largely to the fact that the story, about an underworld tsar who constitutes himself protector of a lady croupier in his gambling house and then shows that his heart is in the right place by giving her up when she falls in love with a mealy-mouthed young prospector...
...livest sections of Author Chamberlin's history are to be found in his descriptions of the collapse of the Romanov autocracy, "one of the most leaderless, spontaneous, anonymous revolutions of all time," and of the hourly dissolution of the monarchy that suddenly fell apart like a gigantic One-Hoss Shay. Again & again Author Chamberlin introduces incidents and documents to prove how little the ruling class understood what was happening, and to suggest the excitement and good nature of the revolution. Only after the overthrow of Kerensky's Provisional Government and the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks does...
...tale goes on to show how Grip lost his life because of his vacillation. A condensed version for use at Columbia and Barnard contains such words as "horse" (harse in Maine, hoss in Boston, hawse in Texas) and ''fear and horror." in pronouncing which the speaker may drop an "r" out of one word or the other but seldom both. At the end is added an irrelevant passage which Professor Greet wrote after a trip through Virginia. People from around Richmond may be expected to read it thus: "The cyah frightened the cow in the gyarden. The girls...
...John Dillinger has really been all the places he was reported to have been in the past month, he must leap along the central plains like a demented Indian's ghost. "John has a lot of hoss sense," says his father, a farmer at Mooresville, Ind., "but he's not guilty of half what they accuse...