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...miles east of Little Rock, Ark. "Think we'll stay-river won't get near us," they answered. Late that night, dwellers on higher ground saw lights, heard screams on the Flynn plantation. Soon the lights went out, the screams were silenced. In the morning there was deep water where three houses had stood...
...helpless, untidy insane patients Dr. William R. Thompson of the Eastern State Hospital at Lexington, Ky., describes in the Journal of the American Medical Association: He has 34 beds that are "oblong boxes, made of one-inch dressed boards; 6½ ft. long, 30 in. wide and 18 in. deep, standing on legs twelve inches high and painted white. They are filled with fresh sawdust within six inches of the top. From such a trough, the patient cannot tumble out; an attendant can scoop out any sawdust . . . patients do not suffer any inconvenience whatever...
...what might otherwise be an undistinguished dish of canned melodrama. The heroine is forced by poverty and misunderstanding, from one man's bosom to another's, thereby irritating her husband into catastrophic petulance. He does his beastly best, poor fellow, in the third act, never realizing that deep down she loved him always. "Earnest but crude," said generous critics...
Toward his writing, too, he will find a reaction. Here as in England people have decided that his glamor is false; that no one, except in books for maids and butlers, was ever so gallant, arrogant, terse of speech, deep of feeling, precious of wit as Mr. Arlen's high-strung Mayfairians...
Clarence Darrow, speaking to an audience of students that filled every seat of the Paine Hall and lined itself five deep across the back of the room, scored our modern legal, criminal and educational systems. Going to the very heart of his subject, he discussed crime in every phase of its development. Taking up the definition of crime first he showed how indeterminate a quality it is. He then passed to the punishment of crime and showed its accompanying ill effects. In concluding he placed all his stress on the training of children, offering them proper vocational guidance so that...