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...what steps he would have taken. ... In the face of the shocking system of government existing in New York City, Governor Roosevelt's failure to clean up his own party and assert his moral leadership bars him-honest, amiable and attractive gentleman that he is-from spiritual kinship with . . . Wilson . . . Roosevelt . . . Cleveland...
...become States; with the allotment of public lands to homesteaders; with the rigmarole of Civil War pensions; with Congressional employes (for the House: "28 pages, including three riding-pages"); with queer old revenue laws including an inheritance tax scaling up from 1% to 6% depending on the degree of kinship between the heirs and the deceased...
...sort, as chairman of the Greater New York section of the American Palestine campaign. Presiding at the meeting at which Nahum Sokolow also spoke, he said: "I like a difficult job . . . I accept the responsibility of leadership at this hour, not merely by right of name or kinship with any man. but by right of my conviction of the supreme importance of the success of Palestine. . . . The Passover week is near at hand. . . . Millions of Jews all over the world will say Leshona Habo Beyerushalayim.* To the fulfillment of that prayer let us dedicate ourselves...
...tend of Dr. Mirakle (a cognomen which rhymes with "cackle"), and we are face to face with none other than Mr. Bela Lugosi, of "Dracula" memory. The doctor pretends to hold converse with his gorilla, Erik, meanwhile affrighting this pre-Darwinian air with sly allusions to Erik's kinship with his human audience. In this audience, flushed with fairday excitement, are a medical student, Pierre, and his fiancee (Miss Sydney Fox, as well as another medical student and his beloved. Leaving this old machinator of a Mirakle for the disarming young people, we follow Pierre and his friends in scenes...
...shadow of old Dr. Mirakle falls upon them. He has hatched the pretty scheme of crossing simian and human blood, in order to prove the kinship of the two strains by the resulting issue. This is set forth with becoming modesty in the film, but it is evident that the good doctor is bent upon playing pander to Erik. He is an uncommonly good one; for in the hit-and-miss days of 1845, we find him making blood-tests of all prospective victims and fastidiously discarding the unsuitables into the Seine, one by one. The best is none...