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...Irish novelist, interesting for its disclosure of more paradoxes in George Moore's own life than he himself invented. Waging a bitter, successful fight against the English censorship on Zola's books, he discredited a similar campaign on behalf of Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. A reckless spender in the Paris days of the Confessions of a Young Man he carefully saved his own earnings while pretending to be at the gates of the poorhouse, left an estate of ?68,000 which he deposited in three London banks in mortal fear of Communists. Famed for his self-confessed...
...loses interest in both the inventor and the Congressman, rides off wrapped around the pressagent. Greater than her importance to the U. S. cinema public, which could presumably get along without her, is Mae West's importance as a lexicon of those slouching wisecracks, grimy proverbs and reckless, light-hearted double-entendres without which the great mass of the U. S. population would be almost inarticulate. In go West Young Man, she delivers a full quota which will doubtless become, immediately and indelibly, part of the U. S. jargon. When her escort demands a quiet table...
...their election-eve broadcasts. In Madison Square Garden, flanked by his mother, wife and daughter, Franklin Roosevelt poured out his heartfelt bitterness at those who resented his efforts to uplift the U. S.: "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering...
...called a "Proclamation." Unfurled were two huge Rexist flags showing "the Black Crown of Christ the King" on a red field. The crowd roared "Rex will conquer! Long live Degrelle!" At this Premier van Zeeland's cavalry charged out of side streets, slashing with their sabres in the reckless fashion of Romanov Cossacks...
...girl rumrunner, dresses expensively, always carries a telegram saying her husband has been hurt to explain her speeding when she is stopped. She sees a young, romantic descendant of an old Virginia family made the instrument for killing one of Halsey's enemies. She grows fond of a reckless college boy who runs liquor for the excitement until he is killed in a crash. But the strained, desperate life ends when Halsey turns against her, the gang breaks up. Halsey is killed by his son. Kit hides in the hills, where an easy-going Virginian befriends her. She decides...