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...Capitalistic overlord by five young Russian engineers. With this simple salvation of the proletariat for a theme, the plot manages to create a blood-and-thunder milieu, filled with hurricanes, dynamiting, death, and a happy ending. The Turkmen are virtual slaves of the cruel heavy, a Bey with a sneer and black waxed mustachios; the Musselmen laboriously draw water from deep wells for the garden of fig-trees and lettuce which laps Aman the Bey and his harem in luxury. But John Reed Turkman writes to the Reds, who come five strong on a thundering locomotive to water the desert...
...changed and changing attitudes toward Prohibition I cannot help thinking about the word 'Wet,' and how different is its meaning today from what it was intended when first the term was hurled at the opponents of the 18th Amendment. It was intended to be an insult, a sneer, or at best a flippancy. It was intended to indicate a person of uncontrolled appetite, a poor creature who placed thirst ahead of responsibility to his neighbor...
...forget to change your socks when you get your feet wet, will you?" He is refreshingly masculine without being a blatant personality boy. He creates an impression of hard-fisted strength coupled to the right amount of feeling without resorting to the Clark Gable sneer or the Buddy Rogers grin. "Sky Bride," now showing at the Metropolitan Theatre, finds him in a congenial, if unimportant role of a stunt aviator who kills a pal in an accident and then waits around until a Hollywood climax pops up when he can remain his nerve and once more become an "eagle...
...mean to say that the English undergraduate is really well prepared for labor problems, I only say that he is better prepared than the American freshman. He has read much more about his won country's history, and in better books. It is hardly our place to sneer if the Englishman feels at eighteen that he will now learn more about his country by going a long distance away to look at it. He already knows it directly better than we know ours, and he can afford to try another angle. He goes to Greece and Rome...
...brought on by the fact that Professor Mathiessen is lecturing today on Benjamin Franklin. Franklin may have had feet of plaster, but it was the plaster of Paris. A man once wrote a book about Franklin and called him "The First Civilized American." There are some who will sneer cynically and say that, granting this was true, he was also the last...