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Judge Edwin B. Parker, board chairman of the Chamber, was there. The times, he said, "demand that we consider the disturbing evidences of a business atavism- a throwback of a day of unrestrained individualism; a day of 'the public be damned...
Until that juncture, "The Scarlet Fox" had been rather a nifty throwback, with Mr. Mack and his dauntless associates in credible controversy with the sins and shames of rural Alberto. In the second act all of us had been intrigued, as they say in "Hedda Gabler," by the photographic reproduction of a frontier lupinar, if one may be permitted to call it so. Wild ladies of the night held outrageous wassail with officers of the law, and the wicked tinkle of best glasses accompanied the loose music of a brothel piano. Beneath the revelry a vigilant Justice brooded; for Sergeant...
Family. Of the four daughters and two sons of Stanley Baldwin, one daughter, one son are famed. Miss Betty Baldwin, a hearty bouncing young woman, frequently electioneers for Conservative M. P.'s. Her brother Oliver Baldwin is, per contra, the family political throwback, a Socialist-intellectual. Hilarious was the contest for the Parliamentary seat from Smethwick (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926), wherein Betty Baldwin electioneered for the Conservative candidate and Oliver Baldwin successfully championed the candidacy of a brother throwback-Socialist, Mr. Oswald Mosley, son-in-law of that late pinnacle of Conservatism, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston...
...trial in Tennessee provided the biggest and best newspaper story since the war. It kept the headlines for weeks and provoked an immense amount of discussion all over the country. Especially among scholars and scientists this episode aroused a fine display of indignation. It was looked upon as a throwback to mediaevalism, an attempt to stultify the convictions of men by due process of law. One would think, from the reaction in academic ciroles, that religious belief is the only field in which great bodies of our fellow citizens decline to be guided by science or by history...
...Coast of Folly. Gloria Swanson is back again in her first picture since the trip to France on which she did Madame Sans Gene (TIME, Apr. 27) and acquired a count for husband. The new picture is a throwback. Miss Swanson spends most of her time wearing gowns and wandering among expensive stretches of scenery. Most of the latter are in expensive sections of New York and at Palm Beach. There is too little story to make it at all worth while...