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...this Colossus of Britain were a monstrous swindler and a mean cheat, what Court, what Law would be so mighty as to overawe or punish him? Last week in the ancient, musty Guildhall of London, Lord Kylsant was brought to trial before a man even more impressive than himself. Without the consent of this awful man (always readily granted) the King of England himself cannot enter his own City of London. The Awful Man is Sir William Phené Neal, Lord Mayor of London. Sir Phené Neal is also Chief Magistrate of the City of London. In his great...
This massacre is the best reason for (also the best reason against) the stupendous loan which the U. S., Britain and Canada may make to the Chinese Nationalist Government. Obviously the credit of a nation in which so monstrous a holocaust can occur is not good. But who massacred 100,000 Chinese...
...Flaying racketeering, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Klein declared: "A monstrous growth, a vile, malignant para site rising from the slime of criminal greed ! . . . This evil must be rooted out if American business is to progress vigorously again...
...Author. For some months Author Bennett acted as house-detective for the Savoy Hotel, spying on the life of his monstrous love. Fat. sloppy-looking, with prominent teeth, hanging lower lip, a wave of hair, droopy eyes, Arnold Bennett would have been more conspicuous, not so well cast, as a maitre d'hotel...
...moving picture, no less effective because a conventional love-interest has been added to the activities of a crazy one-legged sea-captain who wanted to get even with a whale. Across tremendous horizons the camera's eye wheels after the tiny whaling boat chasing a corporate phantom of monstrous, inhuman evil. All the work that a camera can do with great spaces and wild things is done, pictorially, as it should be. This Moby Dick is not a masterpiece. The concentration of the novel, the pressure of a mania growing until it makes the whale itself a Lilliputian thing...