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When, however, the ominous rumblings of civil war increased in 1915 and Chinese patriots started to flock to the nationalist standard in the south, Soong found himself moving towards Canton with the rest of the revolutionists...
...producers on the stage realized the value of college men and it is not surprising that the moving picture directors are now turning to the colleges for material. Although it seems to be comparatively easy for the "movies" to recruit its actresses, the men do not seem to flock to Hollywood in such great numbers. This present nation-wide campaign is an excellent step, and, in addition to any men they may find, they are sure of a great deal of very good advertising. They have proved the value of an education for movie actresses in their school at Hollywood...
...Action Française (royalist), for whose editorial attacks upon Republican Catholics the Pope lately placed the newspaper on the index expurgatorius (TIME, Jan. 24) and more lately excommunicated impenitent Editor Daudet and his colleague, Charles Maurras. . . . Out of the Cathedral came, not only the flock but their shepherd as well, the Bishop of Beaux in the awful splendor of his full canonicals. Vexed by "flagrant defiance," the Bishop boomed forth thunderous Latin phrases, formally excommunicated the three news-venders. A controversy raged...
City-bleached people flock to the seashore to get a coat of tan. Soon, perhaps, they may sit in their offices and bake to a brown that would shame a lifeguard. For Architect Hugh Ferriss plans skyscrapers of glass-the kind that permits health-giving ultraviolet rays to come in-threaded with steel beams. Last week he showed to newsgatherers a model which he had designed for next month's Machine Age Exposition in Manhattan-a little structure like a faery crystal palace strung with moon-shafts. In exchange for a minimum of privacy, which could readily be increased...
Over Watertown, S. D., an immense flock of dapper Lapland Longspurs* migrated north. The males were colored black, white and ochreous; the females were a little duller and streaked. They all sang-until they headed into a freezing layer of air. Then they began tumbling, like feathers from a ripped pillow. Hundreds were chilled to death when they struck the ground. Other managed to reach trees. Where their long claws clutched at bark, they found footage and rested, necks pulled in, eyes squinting miserably...