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...customers observed cuddled up in a perambulator, was really a sly and wicked midget. It was unpleasant to imagine the shrill, false pipe in which such a monstrosity might have whispered to his cronies. As a talkie, The Unholy Three is less hair-raising because its sounds have become explicit. Lon Chancy still impersonates Professor Echo, a ventriloquist in a carnival who, when he turns thief, capitalizes his talents to make dumb parrots talk, to visit complaining purchasers in the guise of a muddled old lady while making notes for robbery. Later, when his associates have committed a murder, Echo...
...London last week the Most Rev. Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, spoke in open, frank, explicit terms upon a secular subject which some Protestants and nearly all Catholics consider unmentionable...
...Commission finds that urgent need exists for an explicit statement of the broad future policy of Great Britain in Palestine-that is, whether Britain intends to hold on to her Palestine mandate and how she proposes to keep it in order...
...expected to contribute $40 a head this year (the two alternative plans come to much the same thing) toward a $50,000 fund for the twenty-fifth year reunion. Presumably the total sum is reasonable, but the senior class would certainly be grateful for some explanation a bit more explicit than that to collect it is the treasurer's "duty...
...first, novelist second (a bad second), he has founded many a tragic, many a sordid tale on fact, embellished it with idealistic Utopian fantasy, false to human nature. Mountain City, latest of his many novels, is more a sordid than a tragic story, its propaganda negative, implied rather than explicit...