Word: robs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impossible characters, an unbelievable plot, and complete disregard of the life-work of Margaret Sanger rob the picture of any value as sex-education propaganda. The association of passionate osculation with such things as positive Wasserman reactions and unsanitary abortions is not, however, without effect. The reviewer heard a damsel who had all the earmarks of an inmate of a local institution of higher learning for females remark after the show, "I don't see how a girl could ever want to kiss anyone again after seeing that...
This movie begins with a burial service for the hero, a director's stunt devised not only to rob the audience of its just reward but to rehabilitate and glorify the old-time cut back under the banner "Narratage," "Narratage," however, is more than stunt; it is a diabolical infliction. Henry, Caspar Milquetoast apologist to Mr. Tom Garner, explains to his wife that Tom Garner explains to his wife that Tom Garner was more than a Legree, more than the faithless, cruci, relentless devil, whose feet the world licked, whose name the world cursed. And where Henry's spirit listeth...
Last month a new kind of attack came to harass the chiropractors of Paterson, N. J. By last week it was indisputable that someone was making a systematic attempt to rob them not simply of their livelihoods but of their lives. On July 17 Chiropractor Alfred Post took his automobile to a garage for repairs. A mechanic lifted the engine hood, had a small bomb explode in his face. Week later, too hurried to drink his usual luncheon malted milkshake at his office, Dr. Post gave it to a Negro elevator operator Last week the Negro was still partially paralyzed...
...Physician to Corporate Bodies"-a title he liked so much that he reprinted the article as a pamphlet. Other writers, hostile to capitalism and pressagentry, have called him "Corporation Dog Rob ber," "Little Brother of the Rich," "Minnesinger to Millionaires," and even "Poison Ivy." Ivy Lee would state his own occupation as "adviser in public relations." Whatever the title, the noteworthy facts are that Ivy Lee first sold the "public relations" idea to Big Business, and made an unequalled personal success...
...mass meeting culminated a week of slowly gathering public indignation. Chicago's Hearstian Herald & Examiner had helped to whip it up with daily scourgings of the "handful of political appointees'' attempting "to wreck the city's school system and rob her 500,000 school children of their educational birthright." A "Save Our Schools" committee had sprung into fervent being. Claiming to represent 40 civic organizations, it had deluged the city with petitions, dodgers, tickets for the mass meeting. Other clubs and societies had pelted the board with protests. Cried the Tax Service Association of Illinois: "What...