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...first few minutes the film works up to a climax when bulky Jean Valjean (Gabriel Gabrio) on the point of murdering his benefactor in bed, finds his dagger has been turned powerless by kindness. Thereafter, come only a series of episodes, each of decreasing inten- sity, showing Valjean's achievements punctuated again and again by the fateful Javert...
...nondenominational "temples" costing $500,000 apiece. Invested at 5%, the $1,059,494.08 surplus over building costs will yield $52,974.70 per annum, or $17,658.23 per temple, or more than five times the annual expenses of each of the 44 present Westover churches. Big Dan explains that preachers, powerless under denominationalism ("in the grip of this great un-Christian machine"), will gladly come to the temples. The Westover elders hope so. A temple rises, not without denominational dirty work...
Meanwhile the police, to their intense chagrin, continued powerless to find the secret hiding place of M. Daudet who, last week, contributed daily an impudent, secretly written article to L'Action Française, reviling and ridiculing the Cabinet...
...Yard cops are powerless. Easier by far is it to move three Packards, twelve Fords, and a baby Renault from the steps of Widener than to move these creatures from the lap of John. They twine febrile arms about him while love clicks the shutter. They spill powder and musk about him while love says, "Dearie, watch the birdie." And like the true gentleman he is, John never grimaces. He merely waits for Monday...
...realize that your Christian Christ had a "loop in his nose," and for the same reason that I have one in mine? Your innuendo is powerless to affect the pride of a Jew in the symbol of his race...