Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motive, was the Presidential candidacy, announced last week by Congressional colleagues with his foreknowledge, of U. S. Representative Cordell Hull from Tennessee, another Democrat. Candidate Hull, politically sagacious, understood the plan and made no statement. His friends, who sought to do him honor rather than to block another's path, displayed the Hull record: 37 years a lawyer, four years a judge, 20 years a Congressman, four years (1921-1924) chairman of the National Democratic Committee. The purpose of the Hull candidacy is to keep Tennessee from fighting too bitterly in the primary over Prohibition or, perchance over Roman Catholicism...
However, one fact opens a narrow path to Royalty between Scylla and Charybdis, namely that slightly more than half the population of the United Kingdom do not belong to the Church of England. It is this majority which (although its individual leaders are less potent than those in the State Church), is probably strong enough to maintain the Sovereign in suspended straddle, until the abyss beneath him closes through conciliation, or is replaced by some such new order of things as disestablishment of the State Church by Parliament...
...walking together toward a city. At the centre of these pictures is the boy who stood in the temple; the face that was filled that day with exaltation has now become more sorrowful, more wise. For three years, through sandy eastern countries, he moves in a golden path of quiet and beautiful happenings. The people who live in small villages have heard about a man who is the son of God; lepers, in fields and ditches, stare at ragged hands that have been made smooth. There are three more scenes at the end of the three years...
...This time it is a smart suburban district festering from the flask infection on its young men's hips. These young people kiss each other a good deal. For these things they would be presumably damned were it not for one among them who was pure. She shows the path to sobriety, sweetness, light. A little child shall lead them. She had to, because all the mothers and fathers went out drinking and necking even more earnestly. There lies the moral. Nice old father and mother were out getting drunk, playing naughty and picking up a nasty collection of nervous...
...spot dances slowly around the cabin of The Spirit of St. Louis. Col. Lindbergh is meticulously examining the ship by electric flashlight; guaranteeing to himself her fitness. In her cabin he stows unaccustomed implements, fish hooks, a cruel, keen machete.* Fish hooks for food; the knife to cut a path out of any tangled jungle into which ill luck may spill...