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...High and Dizzy," one of Hal Roach's first attempts, stars Harold Lloyd and his spirited slap-stick. The dead-pan humor of Buster Keaton is the main attraction of the evening's newest film, "The Navigator" produced in 1924. Charlie Chaplin's "A Night at the Show" is the climaz of this set of silent pictures...
...year Britain began driving official stakes. Applying the rule-of-thumb used in the Arctic, Britain drew a narrowing wedge to the Pole from the boundaries of its Falkland Islands possessions, declared it under the Union Jack. This gained a semblance of international recognition when Britain was able to slap a tax on all whales tried out in British Antarctic bases, enforce it until floating factories were introduced. Thus encouraged, Britain claimed a similar wedge for New Zealand in the Ross Sea area, to reinforce the hazy, unofficial claims of its hero explorers, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Henry...
...Willkie, regardless of what you think, is not selling patent medicine; and as a news magazine, your attempts to editorialize your news commentaries come as a hard slap to many who have always regarded you as source No. 1 for accurate information...
...week's end lights burned late in the old grey State Department building in Washington. If Cordell Hull & Co. were not talking, at least they were pondering -perhaps preparing to act. Unless the U. S. was willing to go all-out against Japan, it would be useless to slap an embargo on oil, because that would be an invitation to Japan to take the East Indies. But an agreement with Britain for a string of Far Eastern naval bases from New Zealand to Singapore was worth pondering, as were the chances of Japan's risking war to keep...
...jobholding in their trunks. Sam Rayburn said goodby, tears in his eyes. No one believed John Garner would ever come back.) In the closing moments Texas' Sam Rayburn had withdrawn Garner's name, Senator Tydings had withdrawn his own name in a statement that was like the slap of a barber's cold towel, and big Jim Farley asked to be permitted to make a statement "without interruption...