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...impact of this situation on the doctor (Lionel Barrymore), his avaricious wife (Beulah Bondi), his daughters and the family retainer (Marie Dressier), produces an unusually dextrous and amusing comedy, partly in the mood of Moliere farce, as it exposes greed and ingratitude in Dr. Haggett, partly as romance when it turns out that the Raggett's old-maid servant is not only the subject of a magnificent Bean portrait but also Bean's widow, tenderly devoted to his memory...
...jail was besieged. Under the headlights of police cars, the mob was running crazily this way & that through the smoke, kicking tear gas cans out of the way, hurling bricks and stones at the defending troopers. The mob gathered for a charge and 13 troopers went down under the impact, their captain knocked senseless. The mob battered down the first iron door with a beam taken from a lumber yard. Somebody opened a second door from the inside...
...imagine. Our newspapers are not sensations, in that they do not deal in the unexpected. All is anteriorly familiar to the alert for our managing editors never print really important news until someone has shown them that it is important and our minds are already prepared for the impact. The American breed of journalism is the tamest in the world, for it never carries on the exciting warfare of principle, it is never inflamed by the ardor of a great cause. Mr. G. K. Chesterton points out that large playing blocks are devised not to startle children...
...dates for the November series are as follows: November 15, "Early Chinese Art"; November 22, "Indian Buddhist Art and the Impact of Buddhism on China"; November 29, "Chinese Landscape Art." The February series is as follows: February 14, "Persian Art"; February 21, "Japanese Art"; and February 28, "Art and Daily Life...
...little else had been ascertained last week. The spot seemed to be enlarging- 8,000 mi. across-which to some astronomers suggested it might be a cloud of dust kicked up by the impact of a huge meteorite. Others thought that, since the spot was observed to rotate precisely in the schedule determined for the planet by the late Professor Asaph Hall (10 hr. 14 min. 24 sec.), it could not be a drifting cloud, might be a volcanic eruption in a fixed area. To still others a volcano on cold Saturn seemed hardly more imaginable than spontaneous combustion...