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...threshold, called on President Hoover at 10:15 one morning, hurried back to his quarters to receive the President at n, then spent the afternoon in a dentist's office. After a state dinner at the White House that evening, during which Master Untiedt was permitted to peep through the door, the Siamese ruler left for Baltimore to have a cataract on his eye looked after...
Accent came with the next words. Try 'as he might Il Duce could not keep up the pace he had set with "ladies and gentlemen." His Italian larynx clipped "people" first to "peepl" and finally to "peep." His "the" gradually became...
...Maharaja of Patiala, Maj. General His Highness Bhupindra Singh. Hon. Aide de Camp since 1922 to George V. (Deep-chested, tremendous, with close-braided beard and heavy-lidded, magnetic eyes, expression and reputation sensual and sinister; from beneath his turban peep a pair of earrings each consisting of two pearls, diamond-set and large as cherries...
Second: When the "Ham, Fish" committee gets through with its investigations, what will it propose? If it should propose to outlaw all communist activities, it will have some job on its hands, because all civilized countries, including the U. S., countenance and practice communism more or less. Take a peep at a few communist activities as officially practiced in these United States and we find among them: Army, Navy, Police, Prisons, Asylums, Reformatories, Public Schools, Libraries, Museums, Public Parks. All these activities are communistic because every man, woman and child pays directly or indirectly for their maintenance, whilst the benefits...
...fail to be of great interest to the casual though critical observer. His comparison of the moving picture and music as analogous arts is probably the most original part of the volume, while his critical discussion of the history of cinema since the days when it was used for peep-shows leads up to a final comparison of the Russian productions of Eisenstein and Pudowkin, representing the finest work in silent filming, and the talkies...