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...facts involved. This "tyrannical decree" "In defiance of public opinion" was already in existence in thirty-three States of the Union before the Eighteenth Amendment was put before the people. The first Liquor Law was enacted in Maine more than fifty years ago. This was not an upstart regulation "put over" on the nation when the boys were at the front; it is an inevitable crystalization of a strong public conviction which has been growing for half a century...
...Russian surgical instrument maker, half genius, half charlatan, who received his early training in the Chicago stockyards, guarantees to cure her with a movable rack, if she will lie strapped to it for a year while her limbs are remoulded nearer to the heart's desire. This Napoleonic upstart, imperious, wilful, has been proscribed by the British Royal College of Surgeons for-bone-setting without a degree; his string of cures being nullified in their eyes by the lack of a string of Latin words after his name. He believes he can score over them by healing this crippled...
...returns to the Duke, who, finding her humanized by love, forgives the upstart and does not kill him. Her royal keeper does not mind whom she loves so long as her tenderness for somebody makes her forget she has a fiery temperament to uphold. Thus, on a cynical note, ends an uneven revelation that a too passionate wooer can play right into his rival's hands. Despite its occasional irony, the play seems to be smitten with awe at moving among elegant folks in grand surroundings. With a first act that sparkles and others that go diminuendo, Miss...
...brief chronicles were sternly discriminatory. For years it ignored the upstart Buonaparte. Only when Napoleon threatened to confiscate the Gotha's archives, did it finally submit to printing his name in its imperial list...
...from the Italian loins that sired him and from the Andalusian breasts that he suckled "- What magnificent figure is about to stride across the printed page? For whose entry was this tremendous barrage of rhetoric laid down ? A Mussolini? A d'Annunzio? No. The Daily News (New York), upstart, rich-quick, gum-chewing little brother of the Chicago Daily Tribune, made this preparation for Luis Angel Firpo. He " has acquired the Mediterranean grace of stride, suavity of conduct, beauty of gesture and an inimitable pose before the human gallery in all he does...