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...vanities of a super-glided Park Avenue aristocracy it could hardly be shown to an audience of unemployed steel workers in Pittsburg without precipitating the downfall of the capitalistic classes, but to those who take the Hollywood conception of high life in Paris and New York with tongue in cheek, the picture will be an amusing if not an uplifting experience. Ruth Chatterton, suave as usual, is utterly and almost disconcertingly competent. Her leading man, the aforementioned Brent, provides a background of quiet humor and not a little charm, and gives a performance more polished than the inveterate movie goer...
...Dubois' Bridge, Darlington County, S. C. When Shannon saluted Cash, the latter was looking at his wife's photograph and did not see or return the salute. At the count of one, Shannon fired and Cash felt a hot blow on his cheek—the sand kicked up by Shannon's bullet. At the count of two, Cash fired, saw a white spot against Shannon's black coat precisely where he had aimed, but Shannon stood firm. Cash was beginning to think he had been cheated when Shannon stepped forward, turned, staggered, fell dead. Around these facts...
With the Captain was a lanky young woman of cultured mien. Her tousled blonde mop, high cheek bones and wide, tight mouth made her look remarkably like Charles Augustus Lindbergh, particularly when her hat was off. Her name was Amelia Earhart. She was working in a Boston settlement house but she had learned in California how to fly. With admonitions to keep her hat off as much as possible Publisher Putnam, whom Amelia Earhart soon learned to call "G. P." or "Gip," bore her off to Mrs. Guest. She got the job. Few months later "G. P." was able...
Thus Minister Johnson turned the other cheek to 60 Japanese bluejackets who the night previous had climbed the high, spiked gate of the International Settlement near Soochow Creek and rushed with fixed bayonets upon a Chinese crowd technically under the protection of the 31st U. S. Infantry. Lunging at these Chinese civilians the Japanese bluejackets wounded ten with bayonet thrusts, knocked down eleven more with blows from their rifle butts and climbed back over the high, spiked gate as the 31st U. S. Infantry rushed upon the scene. Tersely a Japanese spokesman explained that the bluejackets had acted to "punish...
...sprints the Casey brothers, and McManus of Boston College, Bell of M.I.T., and Crickard, Brown, and Niles of Harvard are outstanding. MacKenzie of Northeastern, E. Carey, Holland, and Merritt of Boston College, and Cheek and Streeter of Harvard should score in the hurdle races. King, Parks, Smith, and Whelan are strong B.C. quarter-milers and Jewett of M.I.T. should also score. Harvard has Niles, Maguire, and Piper...