Word: selfishnesses
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...shot. He meets his best friend's (Conway Tearle's) fiancee (Karen Morley) and at once reforms, returns to the Secret Service. Karen Morley, a woman of action, becomes engaged to Warner Baxter. Conway Tearle is vexed. There is much keen, clipped talk, people being candidly selfish, sinister, caddish with pleased expressions. Back in the Secret Service, Baxter captures a killer-counterfeiter to get his hand in, then investigates his fiancee's murder of an international spy, her brother-in-law. He tries to save her from the consequences by recovering the gun from an umbrella stand...
...claim of the veterans upon the taxpayer's pocketbook is selfish and altogether unfounded. There is no beatitude which promises the United States' Treasury to the drafted-into-arms, nor was there any heroic self-sacrifice on the part of the most of the men who formed the American Expeditionary Forces. Many of them were drafted, and used every expedient to avoid service. Others of the "veterans" never saw a transport. They have only the precedent of Civil War and Spanish-American War survivors to give them a moral basis for their demand, and thinking people agree that such...
...matter of supplying food, shelter, and transportation for men who would be dependent on the generosity of the District of Columbia for their living, is an unwise adoption of the easiest way out. There is great potential danger in large gatherings of men who are bent on selfish goals, schooled in the ways of violence, and very dissatisfied with existent conditions. They are the food of revolution, as Mussolini discovered. The only good result of the affair is that it gives the lie direct to Armistice Day orations which praise indiscriminately the "noble, patriotic self-sacrifice" of the ex-service...
...controversy between the President and Congress. It is an issue of the people against delays and destructive legislation which impair the credit of the United States. It is also an issue between the people and the locust swarm of lobbyists who haunt the halls of Congress seeking selfish privileges . . . misleading members as to the real views of the people by showers of propaganda. . . . This is a serious hour which demands that the people rise with stern courage above partisanship to meet the needs of our national life...
...purpose of the play was to provide as much farcical comedy as possible--and this is the obvious, indeed the only sensible interpretation--then the authors err in exaggerating the fiendishness and small wickedness of the mother, Mabel Dixon Church, who would stoop to any depths to attain her selfish designs. Her machinations insert all too many semi-tragic lapses into the general hilarity for the best enjoyment of the authors' genius for the ridiculous in incident and character...