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Metzdorf, discussing the subject, said: "The subject is certainly a lively one and interest is perhaps keyed up a little higher by the element of danger. Recent laws of the Italian government make any arraignment of Fascismo an offense. Italians attending the debate and guilty of this may be deprived of their citizenship and refused entry into the United States in the future...
...Delaware folk there was also a circus element in the death penalty. Cheerfully, the crowd selected vantage spots from which to witness the proceedings. Something of the sub-conscious hope that the trapeze acrobat will fall must have drawn men to the hanging, for the death of the platform performer was in this case a certainty...
...promise is not required in congressional elections to any degree that a general outcry against "big Business" will not satisfy. Yet the definite disagreements as to where and how liberalism should be applied suggest that the Democratic party still faces its traditional urban-agrarian division; that its only solidifying element is opposition to Republication excess...
...rank and file keep on whooping for Genesis. . . . The colored Baptists are all hot fundamentalists. . . . Bible and Lynching Belt [Mississippi] . . . At the slightest sign of heresy the alarm-bells are rung and the culprit is in the fire. The prevailing theology is strongly supernatural, and even shows a demoniacal element. . . . In most parts of the South a Methodist is relatively liberal and civilized; compared to a good Baptist he often seems almost an agnostic...
...producers with their ear to the ground have capitalized their patrons' taste for the salacious and thereby reaped a tritely-called golden harvest, "Rain"; although it deals frankly with the most delicate of subjects, has in it less of salacity than the average sophisticated revue. Unfortunately a not inconsiderable element of the audience is on the qui vive to greet the least suggestion of indelicacy with furtive tittering, whisperings, and nudging. This discordant note is far more obnoxious than anything that takes place on the stage, and those who contribute to it had best spend their evenings at home exchanging...