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...Climbers (Irene Rich). A proud Duchess at the Spanish Court in Inquisitorial times, displeases the King and is shipped off to Porto Rico. There she tries to live up to her subtitled name of "she-devil" by delicately flogging her peons, riding like Tom Mix and crossing swords with an evil-visaged bandit. Despite Dukes, Duchesses, bandits and a lost daughter, there is scant hair-raising...
...carefully a startling prediction made in pungent fashion last week by famed Conservative Editor James Louis Garvin of the Observer,* who wrote ominously of Premier Stanley Baldwin's Conservative Cabinet: "The Diehards? have jumped on the box seat of the Conservative coach and are whipping the team to the devil. The Cabinet's introduction of the trade union bill [TIME, Feb. 21, 28] which proposes to make a sympathetic strike illegal, virtually forbids picketing and isolates the civil service from the general labor movement, is the act of a Government riding for a fall...
...harm, for the Armours have always been brawny, after their first U. S, progenitor, James Armour, Scotch-Irishman. James Armour came to the American colonies in the 18th Century, used to boast: "I was born on a Sunday morning, and baptized before eight o'clock, and the devil a bit of any disease could ever light upon me." He had eight children; his son John, nine; John's son Danforth, six (including Philip D. I and Herman Ossian). Philip D. I's son was Jonathan Ogden, whose only child Lolita Ogden (Mrs. John J. Mitchell Jr.) was cured...
...globe with his heart in his mouth, preaching salvation, singing "Where He leads me I will follow," converting thousands. In South Africa after the Boer War, Negroes and white men quivered and rose in common prayer before Gypsy Smith. In Chicago in 1889 he sought to oust the devil from the red-light district with a blaring-singing-praying midnight parade. Next day, a hundred tramps and a few daughters of joy came to his co-workers to be cleansed, Gypsy Smith having gone on to the next town. During the World War, he worked with...
...obscene literature." "The place for a woman's body to be denuded is in the privacy of her own apartments with the blinds down." "Jesus was never moved from the path of duty however hard by public opinion. Why should I be?" "I believe that there is a Devil." "Counsellor Spencer tried to show that I sought a fat office in Washington. But I could triumph over them all. I said, 'No sir, I did not seek a fat office.'" "The closer art keeps to morality the higher is its grade." "Stood on barracks and looked...