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...writings, by theatrical productions of every kind, by romantic fiction, by amorous and frivolous novels, by cinematographs portraying in vivid scene, addresses broadcast by radio telephony, in short by all the inventions of modern science, the sanctity of marriage is trampled upon and derided; divorce, adultery, all the basest vices either are extolled or at least depicted in such colors as to appear to be free of all reproach and infamy...
...Papist-Fascist issue is thus obvious and clear, it becomes more intriguing to try and extract from Claudia an answer to the still hotly debated question of whether Benito Mussolini is a turncoat politician who changed his Socialist red bandanna for a black Fascist shirt from motives of the basest opportunism. Pertinent and even damning in this connection is the fact that most Italian Socialist leaders who were friends of II Duce's youth now languish in exile or in Fascist jails. But even this fact will not deter a reader of Claudia from wondering if Socialist Mussolini...
Observers recalled that Chang Tsung-chang has the reputation of being China's "basest War Lord," keeps a string of over 100 concubines, and has often put to death every living soul in captured villages. His superior, the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, at Peking, evidently instructed that Mme. Borodin should be gently treated because of the might of Soviet Russia...
...become intellectualy functional, instead of confining itself to the eternal dance orchestras and weather reports, is not easily understandable. Able professors and accompanying recording lists would at least give food for thought to any member of the radio audience who cares to think. The experiment, which in its basest form could result in nothing wose than ineffectual drool emanating from tenth rate educators, is worth trying...
...McKellar of Tennessee last week exploded: "It is the grossest piece of effrontery for this unknown man from Texas, whom no one ever heard of, to seek to show that Woodrow Wilson was a puppet. Of all the brazen effrontery, this is the worst. He is guilty of the basest ingratitude." Said Senator Caraway: "There is one thing that Colonel House absolutely proved, and that is the old French proverb that no man is ever a hero to his valet." He referred to Colonel House as "this little man that no one ever would have heard...