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...other similar city houses, there might be similar stories, as there were surely similar incidents. The camera's disadvantage lies in the fact that its lens is less efficient than the human eye: to show a head poked out of a second-story window, the camera must omit the group on the front stoop. When far enough away to show the whole house, it is too far away to show the people clearly. Like the play, the cinema enjoys the advantages of brilliant acting, especially that of Beulah Bondi as an Irish hag whose loose tongue, constantly wagging...
...also wonder why all this has happened. Is it because of the so-called 'inflammatory bomb' which I incorporated in my discourses of last year which the Columbia Broadcasting System wanted me to omit from the 'Prosperity Sermon.' ... I wonder if any outside pressure has been brought to bear upon the Columbia Broadcasting System by a few bigots whose minority organization figures to bulldoze the people of America and who now hope to tamper with free speech? . . . The fact still remains that they will not accept my money or my contract. . . ." Father Coughlin announced that...
...understand that within a comparatively short time the Pullman Co. has issued orders to omit the customary cuspidor from the berth section of their sleeping cars...
...postpone formal action until the Sesquicentennial Association could be polled on the issue. Declared Dr. Goodwin afterwards: "If I were giving a birthday party to celebrate the birth of the nation, I would not have surgical instruments to accompany the cake. I do not admit, as suggested, that to omit the surrender scene would be like presenting the play Hamlet with Hamlet left out. . . . I do not think General Grant would desire to have the surrender at Appomattox repeated in a scene. He was too generous. Nor do I think George Washington would want the Yorktown surrender repeated...
...anyone to name the daily newspapers published in English in Manhattan. It is an almost certain wager that he will omit one-the smallest one, the newest one, by far the most curious one. Yet any morning except Monday he may step up to the newsstand in the Hotel Pennsylvania, or to two others nearby, and exchange three pennies for a copy of the Repository ("An Independent Newspaper") which last week published its 120th issue...