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...same breed as the "marauders" who amassed the Wyler fortune and hence the proper custodian for it. The only character in End of Summer untouched by the money is a toplofty old scientist who characterizes the rest of the cast as "the great mass of the uninformed and the inexact." It makes no difference to him, he declares, "whether they prattle on full bellies or prattle on empty bellies...
...article in TIME with a good deal of amusement. I could not add surprise, as I have been in politics too long to be surprised when misquoted or misrepresented. I suppose I have too much sense of humor to be puritanical concerning a joke. The story in TIME was inexact. For instance I did not make a speech and I never made a speech in Montreal, and of course, I did not in Montreal or elsewhere say 'To hell with Mr. Volstead...
When a good actress finds that a picture has been stolen from her it may be a tribute to her artistry as well as proof of experience. It would be inexact to say that Lionel Barrymore steals this picture from Norma Shearer, but the role of Jan Ashe is certainly less well suited to her crisp and brilliant personality than others she has played in recently (Let Us Be Gay, The Divorcee, Strangers May Kiss). Barrymore drew a fat part - his first since he decided to be a director two years ago -and made the most of it. The vogue...
...Verdon Roe developed the Avro biplane. They live in Surrey with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then she has sold 700,000 copies in England alone. Copies heretofore in the U. S. were smuggled or pirated (with inexact text). Its thesis is that procreation is but one function of marriage, that love activity benefits husband and wife mentally and physically, that wives should be as forward in the play as husbands...
Aside from their value in this respect, examinations perform another function, in the urge they develop for work by holding a threat over the head of the undergraduate, Even grades, however faulty and inexact they may be, provide a certain visible record of achievement, which serves as a kind of compensation for energy expended. It offers an opportunity of a sort for a man to check up on himself, to give direction to his efforts. Of course, too often examinations bring a rigid limiting influence that makes for fact-cramming but that type of test is here, at least, happily...