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...eminent Daytonians were chagrined beyond gracefulness. Last week they were still bitterly quoting their police chief's description of the Lindbergh tactics: "a dirty, back-alley trick." Mayor Allen C. McDonald had put himself on record with the solemn pronouncement: "It is something that Dayton will not soon forget." Last week, with the incident five days old, a Dayton department store-one of several that had "played up" the Lindbergh visit in previous self-advertisements-proved Mayor McDonald right by advertising a "spirit of economy" bargain sale with the sarcastic legend: "There will be no disappointments in this demonstration...
Framed (Milton Sills). Through error the hero is dishonorably discharged from the French Army. He goes to Brazilian diamond mines to forget. Through a second kick by Fortune, he is accused falsely of stealing jewels. After reels of strong, silent endurance, he saves the mine-owner's daughter from mud floods that trap them in an underground passageway...
...they conscious of inconsistency? Ten hears is a brief period in which to forget emotions so fierce as those which the World War produced. And yet they are forgotten. Mr. and Mrs. Smith would simply not believe you if you repeated to them from memory what they were saying about war ten years ago. Yet if you could somehow reverse the progress of time the Mr. Smith of 1917, should he hear the Mr. Smith of 1927, would pronounce the latter a traitor and a coward...
...Mann has set himself, he has carried through with ability and perserverance, never once falling below his high standard of completeness and accuracy. He has brought before our immediate notice and in vivid coulours the tremendous elemental forces of natural life. No one who has read this book can forget the awful certainty that is death; man is a combination, as Plato said, of being and not being...
...beginning of the next term. No union of determined undergraduates have formed in opposition to his tyranny and therefore he rules supreme. Decidedly a profiteer, he makes his hay while the sun shines, realizing that the antum months are sufficiently distant to make the rebellious ones forget their wounds...