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...with which Bismarck ejected Austria from the Confederation such talk is astounding. Gone is his empire; gone the House which he patiently raised to great power; and now his arch-enemy Austria reappears amid the fold from which he drove it with blood and iron. But the wheel of fate which has crushed the works of his hand has likewise crushed Austria. Stripped of its power, its land, its resources, the once proud state looks to a weak Germany as its last hope in a struggle for existence...
...question then arose what to do with the bodies. The soldiers suggested that they deserved the same fate as thousands of workmen and peasants whom Kolchak had assassinated during his punitive expeditions...
...Novelist Edna Ferbeer's recent opus suggests four things: that no amount of grease paint will make Colleen Moore look very much older than, say, 30; that Ben Lyon and Phyllis Haver are both of the genus stuffed shirt and may as well resign themselves to that fate; that Wallace Beery can play a stolid soil-tiller to the last grunt; that Director Charles Brabin bent carefully over his knitting of deft acting into homely, racy atmosphere, until the final quarter of this film; then Director Brabin dropped the needles and cried: "Paste up the rest...
...French relied upon his assurances and transferred no less than three army corps from the Pyrenees to the battlefields of northern France. More signal proof of his attachment to the Allied cause were his efforts on the behalf of prisoners-of-war and his great services in ascertaining the fate of soldiers and civilians reported missing. He was, through his personal organization, enabled to help stricken relatives in every way possible by forwarding parcels and organizing charities. Another thing, not at all well known, was that the King offered to lead an Army himself in the Allied cause. The offer...
...saucepan, a sleek yacht, a sorry little woman ; he thinks : "Who scrubbed it? Where is it going? Has anyone ever loved her?" So, doubtless, think others, but Mr. Bennett goes to the trouble of finding out. He knows how servants think, how yachts run, how music teadiers meet their fate. He wears a duster on his helmet; he is the knight of Curiosity. More than that he is one of those simple ones who remember that we are all Heaven's creatures...