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...their antic. Thus, as plain Kate, bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst, Miss Fontanne stalks about in a torn white gown with hair in her eyes, kicks people in the fundament, hurls bedding out a second-story window, rides a fake horse makes one exit seated backward on a donkey. Whereas most actresses play the Paduan minx as though she were a frustrated psychopath, Miss Fontanne plays her as though she were a young tilly simply spoiling for a good licking. Since for the past decade one of the most amusing spectacles on the U. S. stage has been...
...that the member state have a strong central government and eschew slavery, Il Duce's drift was that the League can save its face by dropping Ethiopia as unworthy of membership and commissioning Italy, who has no slaves and does possess a strong central government, to bring the backward Empire up to date. Only thing wrong with this Fascist argument on its face was that in 1923, when inexperienced Benito Mussolini had been Premier of Italy for only a few months, the Italian Delegation stood sponsor to Ethiopia and enabled that Empire to enter the League...
...British Cabinet members went into session at No. 10 Downing Street the issue before British public opinion was whether to protect a savage and backward but innocent African people against being singed by the torch of civilization in Eternal Rome's hand, but the issue before the Cabinet was primarily how to protect British investments in the Sudan and along the Blue Nile which is fed from Tana, Ethiopia's great lake. Tana is so placed among rocky crags that a little earnest dynamiting would divert its precious waters from the Blue Nile toward Ethiopian plains...
...during the last cen-tury and encountered such customs and beliefs as this were inclined to think that they had fallen not only among heathens but also lunatics, and wrote lengthy, sorrowing reports of what they saw and heard. Students of cultural anthropology, however, began to realize that these backward people were not irresponsible children but that their entire mental orientation was as different from civilized man's as though they inhabited another planet. With trained scientists in the field correcting and supplementing the first reports, it became further apparent that the primitive worldview, whatever its logic, was surprisingly...
...stars fall on Alabama? Are the Southern States under some maleficent planetary influence? Is the South a backward, or perhaps even a degenerating, province of the U.S.? Such questions a Southerner does not like a Northerner to raise, even rhetorically. Such a book as Stars Fell on Alabama, though very mildly critical of the South, seemed to many an Alabamian a poor return for Southern hospitality. But last month Alabama and the whole South had a much more bitter pill to swallow, this time coated with no Yankee sugar. Clarence Cason was a native son, able head of the department...