Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Harry Leon Wilson wrote it 20 years ago, is not due entirely to Charles Laughton's superbly skillful performance as the hero. It is not due entirely to the intonations supplied in minor parts by Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young. The truth is that Ruggles of Red Gap is a U. S. classic which tempts its actors to perfection as inevitably as it tempts audiences to approval. The best that can be said of this picture, the third cinema version of Ruggles, is that, like David Copperfield, it does justice to its original; the least...
...afterwards dies. He takes his innocent nephew to a brothel. But when he rapes Virginia, 37-year-old spinster friend of his wife's, Charlie goes too far. Virginia has him arrested. At his trial Charlie breaks out on the witness stand, tells too much of the truth. He is sent to the penitentiary for a long term. As the story ends his pardon is imminent, but the nephew-narrator will not be there to greet him; he is leaving home for good, going North to college. But John has begun to understand that his uncle's criminal...
Dogs, however, are not the sole devourers of these appealing dishes. A Cambridge woman once excited the curiosity of the Caterers by never ordering the same amount of food. A request was made asking her to make up her mind, if possible. Finally the horrible truth was revealed--unsuspecting tourists had been thriving on canine dishes for a good many weeks...
Questioned as to the truth of the affair, the Yard warriors vaingloriously admitted complete responsibility for the conquest, but Mr. Hoeing, gallant as always, declined to contradict their statements. "I understand it was a stirring struggle" was all this unsung hero could be persuaded...
...intrepid Carveth Wells or the portly Alexander Woollcott spent there--yet they each got a book out of it." Perhaps, Mr. Franck himself best sums up the value of this book's contribution to knowledge about the Soviet when he adds "You couldn't get the whole truth about the USSR in a single book if you went and lived there until Doomsday. Russia is too big a subject for any one writer." Indeed, this homely philosophy of Mr. Franck's seems right. Franck honestly professes to "know" little about Russia and refrains from uttering any obiter dictums. Thus...