Word: jerker
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...inarticulate but devoted followers, and the devil of most of the respectable element?" He is only 26; frail, nervous, bespectacled, a well-above-the-average college Jew and radical intellectual. In Manhattan and Brooklyn he had once plied the trades of newsboy, grocery clerk, clothing factory worker, soda jerker. C. C. N. Y. taught him letters, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key; Harvard schooled him in law. Said he, "But I never intended to practice. I only studied law so as to better understand the system. I wanted to know all the tricks of the capitalists." Suddenly this lean...
...spiritual wasteland, stunting and evaporating in them all but their physical vigor, malicious wit and crudest humanities. Scores of characters crowd the stage, each closely observed in real life's unmistakable habiliments, from the principals clear down to Schallburger, the labor organizer, and Sim Pratt, slick soda-jerker. There are smashing scenes, but toward the end the cast gets completely out of hand...