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Despite the fact that a cut and dried proceedure perversely realized all the confident predictions of its outcome, despite the fact that all its planks were ground up to make sawdust with which to stuff empty promises, despite the fact that all the favorite sons rejected favoritism and agreed with the Saturday Evening Post, the results of the Republican Convention produced as formidable a mixture as the Republican voters themselves could have hoped to have chosen. Selecting a candidate for the most "important position in the world" as the croaking orators repeatedly informed them, the delegates were sheep-like...
...chemists, biological chemists, physical chemists, industrial chemists, engineering chemists; chemists who worked with spectroscope and vacuum tube to find out the structure of the atom, chemists who spent their days with rabbit and guinea pig to ferret out the secrets of growth, chemists who messed about with saps and sawdust to build up substitutes for rubber, sugar, silk. More than 300 scientific papers were read. More than a fifth of these were on the program of the Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, the longest program of any of the 16 divisions. This division united with the Organic Division...
...mother is dying. Her daughter, Angela (Janet Gaynor), goes out on the streets to obtain money for medicine by selling herself. Arrested, sentenced to a workhouse, she escapes, finds employment with a traveling circus. And, as any botanist could have predicted, the rose of romance burgeons in the sawdust. In this case, the male principal is Gino (Charles Farrell), who paints minor masterpieces more often than he takes a bath. When Gino takes Angela back to Naples, the police recognize her and clap her into jail. When she is finally released, Gino exhibits a desire to strangle and a passion...
...noise made by the dogs was loud and horrible. A small, stupid child, like many who attended the dog show, reached out a paw toward a vast belligerent St. Bernard who was lounging in his sawdust covered stall, swathed in a towel lest the slobber from his mouth should stain his sleek and tonsured fur. The St. Bernard lurched bellowing at the child; a collie barked at the St. Bernard; an Airedale yelped at the collie; soon, all the dogs were in a noisy fury. The people whose business it was to care for the dogs were never disconcerted; they...
...Poland to a poor man named Michelsky. He named his daughter Mariana, emigrated to New Jersey, worked hard in a packing plant. Mariana grew up to marry a bartender who was also a bad character; when she left him, she got a job at $8 a week singing in sawdust floored saloons. From that point her story is merely the brief, trite, magnificent U. S. epic of success. Someone who watched her dancing detected a charm that had nothing in common with Pavlova's grace, or with the sweeping symmetry of Isadora Duncan, or with the stereotyped but enticing...