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...19th Century the Anglo-Saxon countries were the most liberal in the world. The wind has turned, the English are less free and the Americans are enslaved. Some devil has got them to open the gates of hell. To every traveler, who is forced to submit to the most humiliating experiences from the moment he arrives in America until he leaves, the Statue of Liberty cannot be anything but a farce...
...your article on China where you have referred to Smedley Darlington Butler as "Old Gimlet Eye" and "Fighting Hell-Devil Marine," "premier 'Fighting Devil' among 'Devil Dogs,' " etc., don't you think all these nicknames are absurd? I do not believe General Butler is such a terrible...
...Gimlet Eye" Butler is the "Hell Devil" you claim him to be, he might have made all the Huns in front of Verdun evacuate by simply snarling at them. No disrespect to Gen. Smedley, who is no doubt a very clever man, but I am sure he would laugh if he read your article on China (June...
...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's Prayer. In answer, God sends the earthquake of 1906 to demolish the villain...
...Priest Ingersoll talked intimately of Hell Fire," but his son talked intimately of God.* Such was his son's intimacy that he scoffed at his Creator on all possible occasions, scoffed also at other creations of his Creator. Remembered now mainly for a tag about one born a minute which has been tied to his name, he was once notorious for his irreligion, notable for his oratory, famed for his political victories, defamed for drunken outbursts of atheism. Son of a Congregational minister, the future spellbinder was taken from Dresden, N.Y., to Wisconsin at 10, in 1843. The Illinois...