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...cheer the writer (possibly subsidized) who disparages Woodrow Wilson, Walter Hines Page, Lord Bryce etc. etc. and who applauds the notorious People's Council, the Pacifist resolutions of 1917, Gum Shoe Bill Stone and all that ilk? This, your favorite writer for the week, also takes a sweep at Teddy Roosevelt, whom he calls treasonable! . . . Let all the patriots of any decade be dressed as punks and fools, let Judas Iscariot himself be painted with a halo. Let up be down and down up, and you have a Millis book and five columns...
Turning to national fields, Henry V. Poor '36, with the aid of Aristotle, confutes Marx, Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, and their ilk, and consummates a 'Defense of Democracy" five pages in length...
...superb talent Caldwell has. Give him a single stink and he can create a magnificent hog wallow, a singularly appropriate gift for those of his ilk...
...plot briefly concerns the trials the family of a husband murdering mother goes through after she has been acquitted, the family be it understood being of a far more different ilk than the homicidal wife. They are far more sensitive to the infamy and whisperings which are theirs than she who has been the cause of it. The husband-killer is most ably played by Lillian Foster who succeeds admirably in making herself as thoroughly despicable and disgusting as anyone possibly could wish. There is, however, a strange contrast to her entrance into her old home for the first time...
...lastly, it is an emphatic farewell to political conservatism. During the past year the "News" has knelt at the shrine of the classical economy; although we shall leave it, particularly in our general support of the Roosevelt administration, we have nothing but respect for that position and its ilk. It is for the unthinking stick-in-the-muds that our censure is reserved. The "News" has long made every attempt to arouse student interest in public affairs. That battle is almost won. But interest is not enough-at least, not passive interest. We are determined to be an unmitigated nuisance...