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...times, it is a rabid effort at the sensational. It gives little real opportunity to Miss Keane, except to show her gifts as a quick-change artist. Amid the lustrous costumes, she is a cake of soap, foaming and floating among its own prismatic bubbles. A large and untiring cast utter the feverishly banal dialog incessantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 16, 1925 | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...even the most rabid Nationalist dared to foist French laws upon the people of those Provinces; religious privileges, denied to French men and women in France, were freely exercised in Alsace and Lorraine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Alsace-Lorraine | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

...rabid monarchy men goose-stepping into Halle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: May 19, 1924 | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...heartily in favor of discussing the question of socialism" and Professor Hart, "and personally wish it were possible for men in this University to hear the most rabid socialist in the country. Then they would see the utter fallacy of his argument. What is Harvard College for if not to stimulate men to think for themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE BOTH SIDES OF SOCIALIST QUESTION | 4/30/1924 | See Source »

Politically the Duke is first and foremost a rabid anti-Socialist and "Torier" than the Morning Post?a paper once described as "written by cads to be read by snobs." He bought the Post from the Countess of Bathurst, who inherited it in 1908 and ran it until now. Under her, the Morning Post became famous for the impartiality of its news and for the poisonous sting of its editorials. It was rumored that a lawyer was employed to keep its editorials from libel. The paper has always been "the friend of the labouring man and the enemy of Labour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Duke Paper | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

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