Word: persecutor
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...into a world of pure illusion. But, as a girl in the fifth row said, "Still an' all, he is good-looking." Padlocked (Lois Moran and Noah Beery). Here is a typical concession to the popular flair for denouncing everything puritanical. A reformer is represented as the fanatical persecutor of his lovely wife and daughter, both 100% virtuous by nature. The reformer, nasty-minded, looks upon lawn tennis as vice. Eventually he is made to see that the source of all evil is restraint and the source of all sweetness and light is in the freedom denied by reformers...
Your editorial policy would appear to be one of sympathy and pity for this "arch-slacker." You also apparently know as little as I do about the motives or backers of "Sachs," yet you are ready to impinge him as a persecutor of this spawn of treason and desertion...