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...destroy." These extraordinary pranks draw the attention of gangsters who kidnap the old man, use his device for stealing. With the help of his daughter Joan (Jean Rogers), a Ranger guard named Jim Travers (Warren Hull) and a number of electrical tours de force, old Mallory manages to surmount beatings, blindness and bullets, finally defeat both gangsters and Ranger. Best shot: a tough gangster named Fingers (Ward Bond) vibrating helplessly from the shocks of a miniature electric chair which Inventor Mallory concocts on the spur of the moment...
With such natural difficulties to surmount as party-line subscribers cut in and out, General Johnson persevered in his dictation, soon developed the point that a storm of this magnitude would have attracted attention around his old prairie home, reached the sentence, "In that sod house the winter's wood was in the shed." Ten minutes later he was still trying to make New York understand "sod house" and "winter's wood." An hour after he began, when both author and syndicate amanuensis were complaining of sore ears, the lines gave out for good on the pregnant phrase...
...Penn's credo: "Force may subdue, but Love gains." His lectures on peace arouse the hatred of patriots, who threaten him. Always timid, he finds that faith has made him courageous. "Meanwhile there are love and compassion. Constantly obstructed. But, oh, let them be made indefatigable, implacable to surmount all obstacles, the inner sloth, the distaste, the intellectual scorn; and, from without, the other's aversions and suspicions...
...student at Harvard finds it immeasurably difficult to take advantage of these opportunities today. For instance, if a man becomes interested in color through Philosophy 6, he may desire to learn what Physics Psychology, and fine Arts have to say on the subject. How many men are able to surmount the hurdles of requirements at present to do this? If Latin is required, a man may have to sacrifice one of these other courses which would be of more value...
...usual evil of Soviet films, excessive propaganda; it glorifies the man rather than the movement. It's treatment of the White commanders is likewise sympathetic and fair. But it does succumb to an incredibility in its battle scenes which some of the better American films have been able to surmount...