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...pack of cigarets, a few puffs of which make the smoker idiotic, fall into the hands of the police with moderately comic results. Powell invades Francis' house for a midnight call and more light comedy. The police raid farcically and in the same vein Powell does a bit of broken field running through the massed forces of the law. Powell's gestures seem modeled on those of a stage tumbler. He frequently washes his hands in air, as though drying them on an imaginary handkerchief. He clicks his heels and bows from the waist. All this is apparently...
...reel they all escape with surprising ease to the river. No credible picture of modern China, Roar of the Dragon is fair melodrama. White men and women maintain copybook virtues in the unspeakable shadow of Mongol bloodlust. Typical dialog: "You don't know Voronsky." "Only casually; I just bit...
...Davis' words amounted to an accusation of bad faith on the part of His Majesty's Government in general and on the part of Chancellor Chamberlain in particular. Not one bit abashed Sir John displayed his "lightning smile," called in correspondents and told them that in what Mr. Chamberlain said to the House of Commons he had been "misunderstood...
...Manhattan, one Stanley Podloudy, loiterer, forced Stanley Pietraszkiewitz, janitor, downstairs, tried to shove his head into a stove, broil him. Vexed, Stanley Pietraszkiewitz bit off Stanley Podloudy's left...
...Washington Park racetrack, Chicago, Paul Bunyan, racehorse, bit at a fly on his chest, bit himself, had to be withdrawn from his race...