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...course aimed at the Freemasons, traditional enemies of Fascism. By way of bugabooing any lingeringly reluctant Senator into voting for the measure, General Zupelli related an extremely tall yarn. Said he: "Freemasonry strikes at the root of military discipline. . . . There was a case during the Tripolitan war in which the Commander in Chief was obliged to remit the punishment of a lieutenant because he was bidden to do so by his aide who, though his inferior in military rank, was his superior in Masonic rank...
...Coolidge acquired ten large balls of yarn and began 18 months' work on a great quilt or bedspread, knitted, to bedeck a fourposter in the state bedroom of the White House. Every mistress of the White House from Dolly Madison to Mrs. McKinley made something to leave behind her in the executive mansion...
...Grand yarn-spinner though he is, Author Beach never on any account saves a tart twist...
...Lady Who Lied. Lewis Stone, Nita Naldi and Virginia Valli contrive to hoist this hackneyed happening up by its boot straps and make it casually entertaining. It is a yarn of Venice and the Sahara in which the lady marries the wrong man in a fit of pique. She has to renounce her lover to have his life and wait a few months for the husband to be murdered...
...camera spectacles. Carcassonne was borrowed by the Government to show the seige of the medieval town. If you look in your histories, you will find the tale?how Jean Hachette, Jeanne d'Arc of the days of Louis XI, saved the seige of Beauvais. Mingled in the yarn is a startling wolf attack. All the players were French, many of them borrowed from the Odeon and Comedie. Some of the technique was borrowed from the U. S. The wolves were borrowed from Russia. From this assembly, a vigorous picture has developed? in spots a great picture?but one that will...