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...Striking similarity to The Big Parade is noticeable. Three young men march off to war. The girl seeks her fiancé among thousands of marching troops. A doughboy is killed by German machine guns. In the final scene the girl is watching the Unknown Soldier ceremony when her boy romps up to explain that he was only wounded after...
...refused to make any advance statements; said he did not believe in hard and fast editorial "policies" or in dividing a city's readers into "classes." He said, "Folks are folks . . . I'm just a poor boy taking a balloon ride. I don't know where I'll come down...
...German-Jew who, as a rich man's 15-year-old son in Galveston, Tex., writhed at the thought of being known as "old Lasker's son Al"; who got a job writing dramatic criticism for a Galveston newspaper, then cut loose for Chicago to be office boy in an advertising agency at 18; who in four years owned that agency and was making $1,000 weekly, writing "messages" and bringing in new accounts; who at 41 was a multi-millionaire and, having got into politics through the good offices of Will H. Hays and Bernard M. Baruch...
...dreadful little note lay on the kitchen table. It was full of worn words, stale phrases used a thousand times in stories and plays: "Couldn't stand it any longer. . . am taking the children out of their misery because the boy is already beginning to show characteristics of his father." Strychnine, antidote for an ominous heredity, had twisted the limbs and belly 'of the male child, 18 months old-had screwed the face of his sister, 3, into a last grimace. The woman, one Mrs. M. D. Tilman of Chicago, had finished the bottle herself. She lay dead...
...Very well, then!" she muttered, and smashed the boy across the shins with her weapon, three resounding whacks. "Will you answer...