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...England could boast, carried in them the spirit of the age. It was the age "of Shakespeare's London and the ships of the Elizabethan voyagers-- of men whose language was as vivid and as virile as their lives." Small wonder that their efforts came to fruit in "the noblest monument of English prose...
...greatest man in Eastern Asia, unless it should be followed by his assassination, lacked any quality of finality. It was considered by nearly all Chinese, when the staggering news broke, as open to the highly probable suspicion that the Premier of China had had himself kidnapped from the noblest of motives...
Recently as rare as the redskin, the noble prostitute was once a cinema favorite. Carrie Snyder, as impersonated with enormous gusto and skill by Actress Gladys George, famed for her Broadway success in Personal Appearance, rates with the noblest of them all. If intelligence counts, Carrie is better than Madelon Claudet, who sank to scrubbing floors; she certainly deserves the nod over Madame X, who forfeited her own flesh and blood. The rating of Valiant is the Word for Carrie against other noble-prostitute pictures is equally favorable. Adapted from Barry Benefield's novel, astutely directed by Wesley Ruggles...
...Dictatorships, based on secret police and firing squads, have been set up in many lands. The noblest words that can issue from the mouth of man have been prostituted and the noblest sentiments of the heart of man have been played upon by propaganda to conceal the simple truth: that those dictatorships are tyrannies imposing their dogmas on an enslaved people...
More important doings were in Birmingham's Town Hall. There Son Neville was none too subtly reminding Britons that both he and his father had gone from the mayoralty of Birmingham to Empire greatness. Said he: "Joseph Chamberlain upheld municipal work as one of the noblest and most useful avocations that any man or woman can follow. He upheld it as an invaluable school of preparation to those who might desire afterward to enter a larger field and engage in national activities." Wiseacres suspected Son Neville meant by "larger field" the House of Chamberlain's first Prime Ministry...