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Through a month of plenary sessions this seating was not changed. When Bolivia quarreled with Paraguay, mother, father and the whole family proceeded to squelch them both (see below). But even that rumpus did not spoil the party, did not prevent the delegates from negotiation and drafting two vital Peace Pacts...
...Barker. George Fitzmaurice directs intelligently and movingly the consequences of a circus-man's proud affection for his son and his fear that circusing will spoil the boy's chance of amounting to something. Highly admired as a stageplay two seasons ago, the story by Kenyon Nicholson is better than most screen-stories; and Milton Sills, the barker, is convincing even when he chokes his girl friend (Betty Compson) for contriving the seduction of his son by one of the carnival ladies (Dorothy Mackaill). Out of the sound device comes barker-lingo; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (the barker...
...Smith were cited; also the change of less than 500,000 which, "spread around the country, would have altered the result." False note though this latter seemed-since only 137,501- more popular votes "spread around the country" would have given Hoover all the electoral votes-it did not spoil the main theme: "The Democratic party is a live, a vigorous and a forceful major minority party...
Hastily he planted the scrapings in test tubes with germ culture mediums. He sealed the tubes so that no modern air could affect the scrapings. If he did have pre-Cambrian life in his tubes modern air would spoil his research, for the earth's present atmosphere is quite different from that of geological ages...
...plays the part so that you forget it is one. George M. Cohan produced the play and Cohan plays have plots; therefore you will find, muffling the funny and pathetic character of "Hurry" Kane, a ridiculous jumble about an attempted Black Sox deal which is very nearly sufficient to spoil the play entirely...