Word: meddlers
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...life of an animal protector is not an easy one. "Malicious meddler" is one of the mildest names apt to be shouted by people accused of maltreating their animals. They may be even more bitter if the protector is a beauteous society woman who was once a famed public character. Irene Castle McLaughlin, whose zeal for animal welfare is now almost as famed as were her dancing and style-setting in pre-War days, found that out again in Waukegan, Ill. last week...
...most sensational, and the most reckless, of recent attacks on the relation of the university economist to the depression has come from Mr. Frederick Prince, Boston capitalist, who brands the professor as either a meddler or a coward, and asks, "Why should a man ever run away from the world except through cowardice? Professors are our curse--they talk too much." For his part, he recommends in a very definite fashion that the nation "chuck its professors," and draw its economic enlightenment from more practical sources...
...scholar, Ghost Man James knows how to link antiquity and horror: many of his spooks are harmlessly buried till a blundering antiquarian stirs them up. If the meddler survives, his invariable rule thereafter is to let sleeping ghosts lie. James sets the scenes of his stories with cunning realism, hearty plausibility; he never needs Bohemia or Walpurgis Night. Imperceptibly the shades thicken; something (it might be a rat) scuffles in a corner; something (it might be the wind) puffs out the curtains; and then...
...called herself "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like." Author Asbury calls her "the most industrious meddler and busy-body that even the Middle West, hotbed of the bizarre and the fanatical, has ever produced." However that may be, Carry Nation's early, morbidly religious life led naturally to a public career which made her name a U. S. byword...
...this rôle Edward G. Robinson, one of the authors, gives a finely shaded performance. Mr. Robinson has for several years been playing snarling caitiffs in the wave of crime plays. His transformation into the well-meaning meddler of Kibitzer reveals him as the possessor of an unusually clear sense of comedy values. Alexis Polianov, Eugene Powers and Hobart Cavanaugh also are worthy of mention, and Producer-Director Patterson McNutt is to be credited with a steady-handed...