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...previous spring vacations, that it will not even have the opportunity to be at a different time is sure to emasculate its pleasing qualities. A constructive suggestion might not be out of place. Let Olympus keep its own counsel in the matter until a day or so before the bomb is to burst; then let the ukase be issued with all the fanfare of trumpets and headlines that it deserves. People can only be surprised into gratitude...
...armies of Super-Tuchuns Chang and Wu (TIME, April 5) moved upon Peking in force last week. Chang's airplanes dropped bombs near the foreign quarter. Super-Tuchun Feng's armies partly evacuated the city, milled about uncertainly in the suburbs. A Chinese bride was killed by a bomb as she rode to her wedding...
...grim police sergeant, four detectives from the bomb squad, ten patrolmen swinging their shiny clubs, and a score of agitated friends met him in Manhattan. They escorted him through the Grand Central Terminal to his limousine, where a motorcycle corps took up the task of guarding his throat. Santa Lucia! If the Camorra wanted a man, they usually got him. And was Gigli, "the World's Greatest Tenor," to be sacrificed to the knife of some berserk Black Hander? So ran the talk in Gigli's apartment, where he was reunited to his wife and children...
...Jesus Christ. When men have learned to live up to the teachings of this Prince of Peace they will go to war no more. There are economic reasons against war, and political and eugenic and humanitarian reasons, good reasons all, but men will still resort to bayonet and bomb so long as they have not imbibed the spirit of the Nazarene. That spirit is religious, of God, and produced and multiplied in a place of worship even better than in a place of scholarship. Only the highest ideals and the deepest convictions will uproot the seeds of war. These ideas...
...rest of the cast, took pot-shots at her. But she scrambled bravely up two or three hundred feet of precipice, as advertised, and reached her destination. The native girl did wing her once in the shoulder with a shot gun, but she struggled on and threw the bomb out of dangerous proximity. All this goes to prove that the story deals not in pearls but in cartridges. The one thing we actually liked about the picture was Robert Ames, the unfeatured male lead. He was young enough and attractive enough to aid Miss Joy considerably...