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...Bill" chats with a smoothness and correctness of speech seldom found among people of the sporting world. As one hears him discuss the masters of music and their newly acquired ideas of rhythm, which he uses to explain the tennis stroke, one can not help gaining the feeling that Tilden has travelled extensively and possesses wide information...
...expression about a political demon is fusty! And what else should a demon be if not ruthless? As to the propriety of liberals feeling distrust for the Senator because they have been disgusted by personal contact with him, that is something which it would take an ingenious liberal to explain. But prudent delvers in English must refuse to believe that character can be guarded by a bodyguard. A bodyguard may keep strangers from whanging a Senator in the eye, but a Senator's character needs far different and subtler protection...
...mind, Lindbergh is as genuinely of the former type as Nemo is of the opposite. How come, I can't explain, but there you are. To make me believe that Lindbergh was guilty of trickery or of collusion with trickery, would require as much evidence as to make me believe that Nemo was guilty of decency. The one stands innocent, by virtue of his record, until proved guilty; the other by virtue of his record, stands guilty until proved--awful thought--innocent. Frederick Orin Bartlett
...idiosyncrasies of the censor have always been the subject for much speculation humorous and otherwise. But Mr. Wilton A. Barrett, executive secretary of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, has undertaken to explain the phenomenon on a purely empirical basis, and, since this is a professional matter for him, he carefully eschews facetiousness. Much investigation has convinced him that motion-picture, censorship is due primarily to "the bewilderment of any people confronted with a new mode of expression"; this simple analysis, however, is merely a starting point for the learned Mr. Wilton. a combination of erudition and suspicion...
Unfortunately, Mr. Wilton's revelations do not explain very much about the rather mysterious manner in which the mind of Boston's newest censor works, for he has announced that heading his list of tabooed plays are "The Vinegar Tree," "Sailor beware," "Strange Interlude," and "The Shanghai Gesture." Mr. Parker of the Transcript has his own explanation for the inclusion of the last two plays in the list; he is of the opinion that the censor is haunted, that theatrical spooks are making a hell of his life and that loudly banning plays which almost everyone has forgotten about...