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...show your rottenness by attacking Free Masons; for those of France indeed are different from those of England & the U. S. . . . As to the dark pages-you refer to the Revolution, when after 175 years of licentiousness, tyranny & starvation, you refused to mend your ways & when the people threatened to make you, you, led by your foreign queen, her lover, & the King's brothers, called the foreigner into your country to fight your people. You, the nobles, clergy & their partisans, took English gold & passed over to the enemy in 1814 & 15, taking up once more arms against your country...
...fiddler had paid $12 for it to a man who claimed to be a lawyer settling the affairs of a client. By the end of the week Elsa Hilger had redeemed her Guarnerius. Her claim was granted when she described a hasp on the case. She had tried to mend it with a nail when a screw dropped...
...published. Some weeks Artist Beale, in humorous vein, would confect such a series as The First Auto (see cut), in which a swank couple in duster and goggles buy a two-cylinder Pope-Hartford, take to the open road, encounter a thunderstorm, suffer a breakdown (which they attempt to mend with a gimlet and a hatchet), and finally drive on into a sentimental rainbow. More rough & tumble were Beale's ideas of Mrs. Casey's goat which butted a respectable Philadelphian into a watering trough or Uncle Rastus and His Mule. Literature particularly attracted the Professor. He made...
...fascinated by death and torture. When his vanity is appealed to, he operates on a young girl (Irene Ware) to save her life, falls in love with her. Meanwhile he is approached by a criminal (Karloff) who wants his features altered to escape detection. Because Karloff, anxious to mend his ways, believes that "ugly people do ugly things," he begs to be made better looking. Instead, Lugosi makes him uglier still, enslaves him by promising to do a better job next time. Spurned by the girl and reproached by her father, Lugosi decides to torture them to death with such...
This conclusion was the most notable of those reached by Catholic and Anglican clergymen who, in three places in England during the fortnight past, warned female communicants to mend their ways...