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...surprisingly, it is spun too far. Biologists and psychologists, after learning that "theatricalness" is a peculiarly human attribute, will be puzzled to hear that the strutting of cock birds, the romping of dogs and even the protective coloration of plants, are not functions of the instincts of sex, combat, self-preservation, etc. but are, according to theatrical M. Evreinov, expressions of a hitherto unnoticed "theatre" instinct, deepest...
Prize fighting is popular because, watching it, civilized people are vicariously purged of their primitive inclinations. Another need that it satisfies becomes evident, not only in the prefight betting, but in the event the outcome is disputable. Onlookers can then enter actual combat, with their opinions. In the Stone Age, a fight was simply a fight, with no nonphysical exchanges before or after. Today a fight stimulates the popular art of debate. Psychologically speaking, the meeting of the country's two second-best physical fighters last week in the Yankee Stadium, Manhattan, was one of the most successful affairs...
...vibrates in harmony with the best thought in America. Those who can read the signs of the present period of national life know that atheism, bigotry, bolshevism, disrespect for law and order and arrogant interference with the liberties of the individual are the evils which right-minded citizens must combat. If the members of this order practice what they preach we constitute the organized force best prepared to battle against these un-American tendencies...
...contained a bomb. Just then a member of the U. S. delegation appeared, shook warmly the hand of the mysterious stranger, William H. Moran, who is, as everyone knows, Chief of the U. S. Secret Service. He was present in Geneva last week to attend the International Conference to Combat Counterfeiting...
...helped 21 governments to combat hookworm disease...