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...Camera del Deputati, where 50 out of 430 members constitute a "majority." (P. 12.) A tax on bachelors...
...Fascisti and the nationalists, who were forced to join the ranks of Fascismo, only hold 50 seats out of a total of 430 in the Camera dei Deputati. This huge majority is kept in its place from fear of the Fascist organization outside Parliament...
...visiting card should read, "Virtuous Assas-sinations?Singly or by the Dozens ?No Reduction Made for Quantity. " A master-criminal, reformed and now crusading against an international dope ring and murder syndicate, he extinguishes evildoers with nonchalance and celerity. His friend, Shane Emmet, a cartoonist with a camera-eye, assists his adventurous labor with blackjack, revolver and sketchbook, and strings along two high-speed love affairs the interim. When the plot is finally unsnarled, scoundrelly corpses fairly heap the floor, and Emmet, strangely enough, receives the white hand of the more bewitching of his two sweeties...
...Johnson have gone one step beyond any of their predecessors in photographing snakes, leopards, zebras and lions in private life. It's getting to the point in Africa where no zebra can take a drink without suddenly perceiving the camera click in the bushes of the water hole. And as for elephants taking a bath?they might just as well give it up as far as any privacy is concerned. All of which is a manner of saying that the present film is uncommonly realistic. For sceptics who refuse to accept this statement on the grounds that the critic...
...These inaccurate prates were caused by several things. The climate, being warm, made it necessary to develop the plates in warm solutions, which often resulted in flukes or distortions in the photographs. Then again, since the cameras were not pointed directly at the starts, but received the solar and star rays by means of mirrors reflecting, the light into the lenses, the images of the stars were subjected to distortions even before they reached the camera lens, because the mirrors expanded or contracted with the slightest change in temperature. A third criticism arose over the method of measuring these plates...