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...breakdown and then, while recuperating, a young and comely bride (Claire Windsor). But when the medico returns to his work, the bride is sort of neglected-and turns, as subtitles say, to the doctor's scamp of an adopted son for light amusement: It is not difficult to guess what happens next and whether the picture ends happily...
While the surrender is unconditional and only a general statement has been issued, there will certainly come new negotiations with the Allies. What the French attitude will be is hardly a matter of guess-work. Though not to the same extent France as well as Germany has suffered by the occupation. Now that victory has come at last she is hardly likely to soften the rigor of her demands. She will continue her occupation of the Ruhr until she achieves her hopes or until she is forced by circumstances to alter her present attitude. England's attitude is a constant...
...second echoes Gambetta's saying "Du travail, toujours travail, et encore du travail," and a third urges you to "accomplish something" if you would be a true son of Harvard. As for the advisors, official and otherwise, who visit you in the privacy of your room; no one can guess what they will tell you and what mysteries they will reveal...
...hoped that the Government will devote its energies to suppressing the most annoying gambling evil in the Peninsula, the morra. In this game, two persons wave their hands simultaneously, while a crowd of surrounding gamblers guess, in chorus, at the total number of fingers exposed by the principal players. When twenty lusty Italian workmen shout "Uno! Sei! Tre! Dieci!" at the top of their lungs at the same moment, one can surmise the motives which induced the Government to pass the antigambling law. At the same time, one appreciates how from the morra grew the equally dreaded Camorra, or Black...
...Carroll's second best guess was Joe Cook. In the music halls Mr. Cook was what is known as a "wow." Particularly was he famous for his involved absurdities relating to just why a man of his wealth and position should not be called upon to imitate four Hawaiians. Counting on the permanent wave of popular esteem to carry him through the Vanities, Mr. Carroll gave him infinite opportunity. Mr. Cook fell down. He fell down not once but many times. The first few times it was funny...