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...THEM THAR HILLS, STRANGER-MILLIONS WILL PLAY) serves both to attract buyers and players. The eloquent Tom Thumb booklet explains: "Passersby see the course, they see people putting-they stop-they lean on the fence surrounding the course-they watch the ball as it travels toward the cup-they scream-they laugh . . . they are fascinated-they want to play-they do play . . . they laugh-they scream-they groan-at last they are playing golf...
Minutes later the head porter at King's College Gate heard muffled sounds which might or might not have been shots. Shambling into the hoary building he heard a hoarse scream, quickened his pace to a bound. At the top of the stairs he stumbled over a man from whose leg and chest blood gushed-Detective Sergeant Willis...
...Street of Chance" is probably the first underworld picture, (and there have been many of them lately), which does not try to reach its climax in the midst of pistol shots, machine gun fire and the scream of police sirens. The whole tone of the movie is quiet efficiency, whether it involves taking a hundred thousand dollars from a sucker at the gaming table or in taking an obstreperous colleague for a ride...
...keepers unlocked the door of Robber Spiers' cell. Still cringing he took a few steps between his guards, then with a sudden scream of terror, sprang away, vaulted over the pipe railing of the cell gallery, and plunged down three stories to crash, a sodden neck-broken corpse at the very feet of the assembled Justices of the Peace...
With the publication of each new scholarly inquiry into the origins of the World War, those whose memories go back to the fatal days of 1914 have a vivid example of the way in which disinterested study and perspective change history from the partisan scream of newspaper headlines to the weighted decisions of historians. It is evident that amid the confusion of reports and propaganda surrounding each day's news only with extreme difficulty can the layman arrive at anything like an unprejudiced opinion concerning the events which are taking place round about him. Nevertheless it is that very opinion...