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...brilliant photograph of a great War play. The story is a pattern loosely and skillfully woven around the lives and characters of certain British officers in a front line sector-their amusements, memories, meals, relations to each other-all unified by the abstract presence of a power bent on destroying them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen-a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best way to behave in circumstances which are absurd, insane, horrible. Captain Stanhope is played by Colin...
Reconnaissance began at once. Small groups took the air to learn the countryside, to spot enemy encampments. Next day larger squadrons rose out of Mather Field to smash Southern Pacific R. R. yards, to destroy bridges and warehouses and ammunition dumps, to hop over fields and fences, highways and houses, to harass the invaders with bomb and bullet...
...good one and bears watching is unnecessary to say. There is in every class, from the time when it is graduated from Kindergarten and matriculated into the first grade, a certain class consciousness that makes it feel that a leader is necessary, that it must have a president. To destroy this inherent belief would be to take the vitality from the class. What would Harvard classes do without officers to draw up lists of the nominees that shall follow them? What would be more drab than a congratulatory or consolatory letter signed "Member Student Council" instead of the heart warming...
Last autumn the Senate adopted an amendment to the tariff bill, offered by New Mexico's Bronson Murray Cutting, to discard the present system whereunder Treasury agents on steamship docks seize and destroy imported books which they judge obscene or immoral (TIME. Oct. 21). Appalled at the prospect of a flood of dirty foreign literature washing up on clean U. S. shores, Senator Smoot made a collection of volumes recently seized by the Customs agents and during his Christmas holiday pored over improper paragraphs to amass arguments for the retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read...
...Thank God, ten years ago our moral consciousness awakened to destroy these perfidious practices, giving...