Word: fabricating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brass Bottle. In producing Down to the Sea in Ships, Maurice Tourneur, director of The Brass Bottle, dealt very effectively with a large rubber whale and one of the heaviest Northwest gales that ever struck the screen. In the present picture he fashions his effects from the improbable fabric of fancy. In fine, he tries to tell a fairy story. He finds the volatile genie far harder to manage than the rubber whale...
...thereto. Verily they have their reward, and one that, like riches and other worldly prizes, is a gratification to those whose hearts are set upon it; but in the sight of God not to be compared with work, inconspicuous perhaps to men, that has been built into the permanent fabric of other human souls. If your aim be more than selfish gratification, if it be to accomplish something that will make men happler and better, then the more enduring its effects the more it is worth doing. It may be done in any line of human activity...
...interim between fact and probability speculation is still rife as to who will succeed Lenin. The latest theory is that when his death is announced the whole fabric and government of the Russian Communists will collapse. There is not one iota of truth in this contention, for during the past few months Lenin has ceased to be of any political consequence. Kaminev, weak and moderate, has been installed in the shoes of the great one; but these shoes are so big and strong that Kaminev has to go where they take him. The men who are really ruling Russia (Rykov...
...being in successful operation, are no longer regarded with apprehension. "It is ancient history now to refer to the election of Senators by the people. That policy did not rend the structure of government to its foundations, as timid conservatism predicted; nor did woman's suffrage destroy the fabric of society; nor have direct primaries upset the balance of our political processes. "As a matter of plain fact, I am in some things an utter conservative, determined to conserve, as far as I possibly can, those principles and policies of the fathers which for so many years have made...
...will deny that pillars of antiquity in the fabric of certain human institutions preserve for them a certain charm and dignity. However, where such pillars are substituted for scientific pillars capable of shouldering the increased load with less strain, grave danger is unnecessarily involved. It cannot possibly be that Harvard has extended the rule of the survival of the fittest in its fullest sense. This is impossible, for it is opposed to reason...