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...recent English critic has flayed the present literature of his country, and has advised the new writers to cast their eyes backward at the glorious work which was being produced half a century ago. The public cries for bread, he declares, and in return England's young modernists are giving them literary stones. Prose, writers turn out drab, boorish novels, and pseudo poets concoct yards and yards of verse, written "with one eye on Mammon and the other on the Charwoman's Elastic sided Boots". All that remains of a splendid past is an attenuated Hardy in the flesh...
...keynote, perhaps, of all the tributes is sounded by Mr. Lloyd George, "True, he was a failure, but a glorious failure. He failed as Jesus Christ failed, and like Christ, sacrificed his life in pursuance of his noble ideal...
...Senate, or of the American people or of the world. It is unfortunately true that he had no way of raising mankind to his own mental plane. But if Woodrow Wilson "failed," failure takes on a new significance; it is manifestly impossible to succeed; to "fail" is influitely more glorious than to do nothing...
...Devil. Below this strained and curiously uninviting title lies a moderately momentous musical comedy with Constance Binney. Miss Binney is a handy heroine to have around any musical comedy and she has been unaccountably neglected since she was let loose by Comstock and Gest in Oh, Lady, Lady of glorious memory. If memory serves, Miss Binney left the comparatively secure precincts of Philadelphia society to become a dancer. After demonstrating her competence as noted above, she took a dip in drama 'with 39 East and has since been distributing her efforts in celluloid form, canned...
...Committees." They, substantial citizens, laid the groundwork and made the preparations. Tammany was not included on the Committees, but Charles F. Murphy, Tammany boss, was doing his bit on the side. Money was raised. Then came the trip to Washington in a private car. It was a glorious party. There was Judge O'Brien with a certified check for $150,000 in his pocket. There was the Judge's son, young Kenneth O'Brien, potentially famed lawyer and Secretary of the National Democratic Club. There was the Acting Mayor of New York City. There was Tex Rickard, A. C. Pearson...