Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Shook the World, Old and New with the people's awakening centred in the phlegmatic, stupid, finally violent figure of the Mongol hunter. Valery Inkizhinov, a Mongol by blood, is a capable tool of Director Vsevolod Pudovkin in showing forth the brutal elementalism of his race through the medium of the duped Asiatic. Typical shots: Inkizhinov wrecking the general's headquarters; the drooling baby Lama at the Festival of the Masks gurgling merrily as a monk inducts his predecessor's soul into his flesh; the symbolism of the growing "storm" sweeping the Whites before it like tumbleweeds...
...four-cornered by-election at Bromley, fought largely on the tariff issue last week, the Labor and Liberal candidates (free traders) lost heavily while big gains were made by Lord Rothermere's high tariff candidate, and the Conservative (medium tariff) Edward T. Campbell...
...Muchenberger a huge sum of money. But don't you think he has the right idea to stimulate a buying power and business in general? Just imagine, if each employer in the U. S. presented his employes, not $30, but say $5, $10, or $15-what a buying medium it would create under the plan as outlined. Surely by all industries joining in such an enterprise, some of this new business would revert either directly or indirectly. It is beyond a reasonable doubt it would be a change from the old battle cry of hard times. Think it over...
...motion picture is primarily interested in entertaining. Its field is the drama of life. It is a mirror held up to nature. It presents the evil with the good, but goes farther than real life by showing the triumph of right over wrong. The motion picture as a medium of entertainment and in presenting the drama of life does not knowingly misrepresent American life, as your correspondent charges, any more than the newspapers in printing the news of everyday life...
...advanced him sums aggregating $40,000, always addressed him as "My Liege Lord and Dear White Knight." In return "Louis de Bourbon" issued notes "payable in the near future" when he should have regained his rightful place as France's ruler. Last month Mme Heitz went to a medium who revealed that her King was misappropriating the funds she had lent him. Forthwith she demanded a reckoning...