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Smedley D. Butler, sturdy Quaker, partook of this courageous, fighting chivalry. He was seen by a British officer to rush out under fire and drag a private to safety. For this the British recommended that he receive the Victoria Cross; but at London, experts pointed out that he was not eligible on technical grounds...
...mounted on a horse of small intrinsic value, and cajoles the bull into attacking his horse after he (the picador) has dismounted. The horse, unarmed, nude, often blind, invariably suffers heavy losses in an encounter of this kind. The bull gores him until tired; a team of mules then drag his remains to cover...
...police procedure against The Captive, Sex and The Virgin Man, was doubtless due to the fact that the public censor is also a public servant requiring votes to hold office. Nevertheless, pending the hearings on these three plays, the management of a "homosexual comedy drama" called The Drag, after being barred in Bayonne, N. J., last week disbanded its cast of 62 players, not daring to enter New York City. That was some comfort for Mr. Sumner, whose attention was further occupied last week by his $100,000 damage suit against Publisher Bernarr Macfadden's daily pornoGraphic. The Graphic...
ANYONE who has ever climbed with a pack on his back knows the drag on the shoulders, the seemingly endless upward effort necessary to progress. At such times, the tramper searches his memory for some poem to symbolize that steady, grinding advance, a perspiring conquest analogous in a small way to the sustained march of the pioneers across this country. No such uphill epic has, so far as I know, ever been written...
...taste is too evanescent; it is impossible to say offhand what is and is not in good taste. Furthermore, a great deal of the most offensive drama and literature breathes a vociferous odor of sanctity. The strength magazines, and the "art" magazines reek with it. The manager of "The Drag" says he would show the play in a church, and asks censors to point out exactly what is wrong. He is unanswerable. It is no more possible to say that "The Captive" is on a higher level than "Sex" merely because it is in good taste, than to say that...