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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Progress. The parley sessions were held in secret last week, and the absolute maximum of progress attained seemed to be that the U. S. delegates persuaded the British to put off, at least temporarily, discussion apropos of revising the Washington Treaty and to proceed first with negotiation on other points...
...made in heaven is utter folly. . . . Such sanctification all of us are probably not willing to concede. But there are some scientific discoveries which the Church should concede and urge. One of them is sterilization of the mentally defective. Another is the intelligent use of birth control, at least in families where the economic situation is poor...
Since then Mr. Blumenfeld has become, if not a "power," at least a virile, pungent force in Fleet Street, which he described, last week, as "that street of golden adventure which has been so long my home...
...shrugged shoulders, mumured: "Say, it isn't true, Lindy, say it isn't true." But, on reflection, they decided that, after all, it did not so much matter whether Colonel Lindbergh did or did not write his signed stories-they made excellent reading, they were presumably at least based on interviews with him, and Colonol Lindbergh, if he had a "ghost," was only doing what many famed persons had before and would do again. As Mr. Schuyler pointed out, every light has his shade...
Running Wild (W. C. Fields). Ever since Herr Freud took to unsnarling the human mind, playwrights have reveled in the possibilities of Jeff's suddenly out-mutting Mutt. Not the least amusing of such fancies is this film in which Finch, the browbeaten, stumbles into an experiment in hypnotism and emerges Mr. Finch, brow-beater. Whereas his wife used to nag him, his son jeer at him, his boss sit on him, he now throws china at the picture of his wife's first husband, thrashes his son, bullies his boss, roars like a lion, and kicks...