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Gaumont-British has surpassed itself in the excellence of the musical recording, the splendor of the scenery, and in the sense of continuity which is maintained throughout...
...doubly exasperating. There is a numerous but inarticulate body of broken-spirited, grumbling upperclassmen, who inhabit the dim confines of Hotel Cleverly and Dudley who roam the streets in search of some pitying friend who will condescend to allow them to eat a meal in the unattainable splendor of a house dining room. At one stroke they have been cut off from one or the chief practical pleasures of college life. They are living at Harvard, but to all practical intents and purposes they might just as well be living at home. Every student who is admitted to Harvard ought...
...Ethiopia!" he and his friends were promptly arrested, permitted to cool off for a few hours in jail. Likewise last week Poles glorifying in the Pilsudski everywhere sang Jeszcze Polska Nie Zginela, their national anthem: Poland's not yet dead in slav'ry, She shall reign in splendor! What she lost her children's brav'ry Once again shall render! On, on, ye Legions, where battle rages! Poland shall again be free...
...whose barkers solemnly swore that their shows were "right from the Century of Progress." "The Classics of 1935" offered for view a bevy of young women whom the barker introduced thus through his loudspeaker: "Ten little beauties, ten little models, undraped, unveiled and unashamed. . . . Human beauty in all its splendor and glory...
...Russian rulers. One of Zena's aunts, under the influence of religious charlatans who were then dominant at the Russian court, wanted to subsidize Pan-Slavic conspirators in the Balkans, had her husband assassinated in order to secure his fortune. An uncle, a sadist, lived in barbaric splendor in Italy, once compelled his guests, including Julian, to witness the flogging of a financier's wife who had been caught cheating at cards...