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...been called cruelly iniquitous. Intimate visions of anatomy and ribaldry of wit are often apparent. Yet the display is a study in hygiene in comparison to a variety of Broadway shows. Mr. White had so much entertainment that he could apply temptation as a background. Other producers prefer to focus on it, and play it as their highest card...
...cause the student to think quickly and accurately, and to focus his imagination, for problems in design he is required to furnish preliminary sketches. These are but 12 hours in length and must embrace the general solution for the problem. During the sketch no documentary aid or aid from instructors is allowed or given, so that the student is placed entirely upon his own resources. If he makes an error, it will go hard with him, since he is not permitted to depart from his sketch solution during the rest of the time alotted him for preparation of the final...
...danger that a well propagandized new Calif would become the focus of troublesome "holy wars" might well cause the following Great Powers to "take steps": Great Britain, if the "Green Mantle of the Prophet" should descend upon King Fuad of Egypt, King Feisal of Irak or the Aga Kahn; Italy, if Sheik Achmet of the Senussites should receive the "Sacred Sword" and begin swishing it near Italian Tripoli; France, if the "Holy Standard" (the third emblem of the Calif) should be unfurled in the Riff by Abd-El-Krim, or by one of the Sultans in the vicinity of Syria...
Arthur Pugh, for many years a steelworker, now chairman of the Trade Union Council, represented the focus of the entire general strike. His chief strike lieutenants, outside his personal Tsardom (steel), were: A. J. Cook (Coal); J. H. Thomas (Railways); Ben Tillet (Docks...
...lightfingered taxi man he harbors much too warm a heart, and the humor for a really humorous part. As Pere Chevillan, a jovial kill or cure purveyor of religion who has laughed with, as well as at the world for so long that the donkey joke won't focus, Mr. W. H. Post also gives a splendid performance...