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...Francisco (Dolores Costello). With her proud father she dwells on the sunny, ivy-grown rancho of the Vasquez family, who founded San Francisco. There she might have breathed rose-laden zephyrs and married Terrence O'Shaughnessy (Charles Mack) but for Buckwell (Warner Oland), villainous politician. He wants to take away her rancho. Because she senses that, despite appearances, this wretch is a Mongolian, he carries her off to the most devilish abyss in old Chinatown, "the inner circle of the mile of hell." There, on the point of worse than death, it occurs to her to repeat the Lord...
...where Senator Buddenbrook finds by chance a philosophical book and becomes enchanted by it-no name is given, but it is unmistakably Schopenhauer's pessimism, entering upon the tired mind of the last member to a hitherto romantic, Victorian, uncomplicated tribe. For, last he is, the last grown-up at least. His son dies as a boy; we accompany him to school, suffer with him the heartaches and the thousand natural shocks that he is heir to. But the first serious attack on Hanno's health severs the thin thread that holds him to life...
...York Times on the college undergraduate. "A generation ago," says Professor Edgell, "I should have regarded the experiment as suicidal. Nowadays, however, it seems to me that undergraduates are far more mature and on the whole do their work in the same matter of fact way that grown men do their work in business or the professions...
...years ago and today has a circulation of practically 900,000. We have just announced an increase in advertising rates effective in January, 1928, with a guarantee of 1,000,000 circulation. There has never been, in the history of magazine publishing, a non-fiction magazine whose circulation has grown so rapidly. In fact, to the best of our knowledge, there has never been a home publication whose circulation has ever exceeded a half-million without fiction and fashions. Better Homes and Gardens has neither...
...CRIMSON reporter, confirmed the story that unfertilized eggs had been hatched by ultra-violet rays, declared that Dr. Jacques Loeb, professor in the University of Chicago 30 years ago, had succeeded in producing the fertilization of eggs in a super sale solution. Before he died he had full grown living frogs that had been produced in this manner. Naturally these frogs had only those characteristics that they had inherited from their mothers...