Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world is much better off under the control of the wisdom of the average man than under the rule of that type of Intellectual to whom originality is more meritorious than wisdom. The average man in this country has no sympathy for a criminal and when serving on a jury will not hesitate to convict the fourth time with the resulting life penalty provided the evidence is clear. Crime can be suppressed when it is necessary and the measure is one of the best passed in recent years for the limitation of robbery. Although the average man is quiet...
Senator William Henry King of Utah: "My son Paul is an intrepid flyer. Last week as he piloted his plane, a Department of Commerce type, over Boiling Field on his way to Dayton, Ohio, he decided to land. The right wing caught in the grass and spun the plane around; out of the wreckage they dug my son Paul, unhurt...
Sensation Seekers (Billie Dove). This plot is from Ernest Pascal's Egypt. Billie Dove as Egypt Hagen, society type girl, smokes, drinks and goes bad with six times the diligence of any possible society girl, determined to go to hell just as fast as she can get there. Reverend Norman Lodge (Raymond Bloomer) sidetracks her into his parish house. Preacher Lodge is convincing and that is all which can be said for the picture...
Very different, though of a kindred ruminative type, are two books by U. S. commentators upon Europe. They quote no ballads, songs or snatches; but one, a young Columbia University Assistant Professor "on the make" has turned out a very crisp and searing exposé5 of the hypocritical process by which the white man shoulders a "burden" of profitable produce which he has made the colonial native extract from soil rightly his. The other U. S. ruminator cited is the Editor of Foreign Affairs.6 He starts with such elementals as that "Balkans" was originally a Turkish word meaning simply...
...native tribes of New Guinea are in an unusually low state of civilization" declared Putnam. "In dealing with the average type of native, the African for example a man may court the favor of the tribal chief by the judicious bestowal of a few trinkets which may take his fancy, and in return for which he will force his humble subjects to pose for photographs etc. But not so with the aborigine of New Guinea. His is a communistic society and he recognizes no will but his own. It is therefore necessary to please each individual and the number...