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...least it would be interesting to know something about it. The machine in urban polities is possible because the voters are ignorant and needy, and because those who should vote, are indifferent and don't. In this case the ignorance of the members of the Class, is not their fault. They have never had a chance to see the Constitution. The indifference is their fault, and this may be also properly considered an appeal to stir the members of the Class from that indifference...
...noisome litigation now pending in the U. S. court, you may rest assured, without thought of gain, that I will have added and contributed in a small way to the defense of one who is universally respected and loved as a kindly, genial and capable gentleman. His only fault was that unscrupulous characters betrayed him. and this treachery when revealed to him in all of its ugliness and criminality broke his great heart...
...Court, as the appeal proceeded, stalked Lord Kylsant, the appellant, one of the most impressive peers in Britain, a man more than six and a half feet tall, broad in proportion and fault- lessly garbed in cutaway and silk hat. Several times the Baron arrived at Court and departed from it in his twinkling limousine. But when the time came for Mr. Justice Avory to deliver his verdict on the appeal Lord Kylsant stalked to a cell, bent his massive head to enter and seated his great frame on the small cell chair to wait...
That the show was a failure was no fault of Bobby Clark & Paul McCullough, two droll fellows who make many spectators scream with laughter. Funny man Clark did his best to discard Mr. Arno's inane libretto, inject into the proceedings his own particular brand of in sanity. The simple burlesque business that Mr. Clark knows best consists chiefly in manhandling a cigar, shooting people with a trick cane equipped with a rubber-tube to blow smoke through, ogling all pretty girls through spectacles painted on his face, ranging rapidly about the stage at a half-crouch. All this...
...Mumford has taken unpromising material and used it well, creating out of the Brown Decades a period both instructive and entertaining to modern readers. If it is less interesting than his earlier works, the fault is in the period, not in the interpreter; prospective readers need to be warned, however, to expect an unusually straightforward bit of writing, and incidentally of economic criticism on page...