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...Murray (Lucile Watson) is a famous writer who was, in her youth, a stormy struggler in Greenwich Village for freedom for women. Now she has settled down to a placid, respectable existence with her husband (Charles Bryant) whom she calls "Commodore" because he wears yachting clothes when he sails his boat in Long Island Sound. Daughter Ellen (Miss Conklin) has an admirer so polite that he apologizes to Mrs. Murray because his late father, a judge, once jailed her for 30 days. Ellen pays little attention to him until he announces that he is sailing to take...
...long time and he is not parochial, as his hasty missive might imply, but widely traveled and eminent in his specialty. He is just the stripe who would be very unhappy without his weekly installment of TIME. I speak as an old schoolmate' (Creighton University, Omaha) and a struggler on the same old primitive football team with Hellwig. am sure that he will continue to read TIME, the Jocelyn Museum to the contrary notwithstanding...
...dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building in 1910, Commissioner Mahaffie was a struggling young lawyer with no clients. He caught the eye of Clarence Darrow, who has saved many a rascal's neck, was hired as Lawyer Darrow's assistant for $20 a day. Princeton made Struggler Mahaffie an instructor in jurisprudence. Woodrow Wilson made him solicitor to the Department of the Interior. Warren Gamaliel Harding made him attorney to the U. S. Railroad Administration. Then he became director of the I. C. C.'s finance bureau. At Kingfisher College (Okla.), when he was graduated...
...business and industrial depression again set in, and Dr. Todd's brains averaged 1,540 c.c. He told the dining doctors: "Here were the men who could think for themselves, who knew and resented their fate. The pneumonia of the shiftless, the tuberculosis of the overwearied struggler, the heart disease of the adventurer, no longer acted alone as our receiving agents. Instead, men shot themselves or each other; threw themselves into the lake [Lake Erie]; poisoned themselves with morphine or raisin jack; or perished of cold, listlessly lost in despair." Late in 1922 smaller brains came to the anatomy...
...portentous storm clouds swirling over Calvary," a gaunt, muscular, physical Christ depends from the cross. The sweet Christ, the mild Christ, the frail Christ are not there. He is a tremendous peasant fellow. His muscles bulge. His members are large, cumbrous, powerful, those of a toiler, of a great struggler. On his face are the passing marks of the death agony, the last contortions of pain passing in the peace of unconsciousness...