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...years ago at Crafton. Tex., Amon Carter used to sell sandwiches on the station platform at Bowie, newspapers on the Fort Worth streetcorner where now rises the office building of the Star-Telegram, which he bought eight years ago with money made in cattle, oil, advertising. The presses which thunder all day long in Taylor Street are named after his children...
...love-affair of Heloise and Abelard not simply by the dusting and patching of documents but by putting together many a vanished two and two. The result, as any reader may verify without benefit of historical knowledge. seems historically true. And though its horizon is ringed with the theological thunder of that far-off day, its medieval scholastic air is not oppressive but exhilarating. Peter Abelard is an exciting book...
...remember distinctly a certain day last year when I was at prep. school. It suddenly occurred to me that I was going to love Harvard--for I would no longer hear at every hour the bone-shivering vibrations and thunder of a certain bell. Alas, my second morning here I was most rudely disillusioned...
...Thunder Over Mexico (Upton Sinclair) is a feature length null picture whittled out of the gigantic 243,000-ft. opus which Director Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein made in Mexico over two years ago. In silent form with a musical accompaniment, it investigates a minor miscarriage of social justice on a Mexican hacienda toward the end of the last century. A peon and his fiancee go to their ranch owner for permission to marry. One of the hacendado's guests rapes the girl. The peon strikes her assaulter, then tries with four friends to retrieve the girl from a tower into...
...whipped around the Tammany wigwam early this September the Sachems within huddled about the fire and speculated gloomily on the prospects for the winter. It looked bad. There was no doubt that Chief Mammoth-jaw O'Brien was not the man the tribe had thought. The magic of his thunder-bearing oratory was losing force, and his latest attempts at balancing the budget had revealed a dismaying lack of biceptual muscle, as well as nearly causing a village riot. In the next election it was all too possible that a revolt might swing the tide to Fiorello Laguardia, the Fusionist...