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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pipsqueak is converting, and flattens the hecklers. The Baptists gasp. "HellCat" Gantry, the black-maned campus bully with his boasted amours and loud contempt, get religion? The pipsqueak fawns and prays. A bully bigger than Gantry, "Old Jud" Roberts, praying (and weeping) fullback from Chicago, holds a chest-pound-ing, fistshaking, handshaking, "manly challenge" revival. "HellCat" confesses publicly. The half-baked atheism of "Hell-Cat's" only friend and roommate, Jim Lefferts, is no match for raw afflatus. Unwittingly the atheist supplies all that the convert needs for his "Call" and ordination. The Holy Spirit enters Elmer Gantry...
Sirs: I have just received the letter from Florence, Italy, you forwarded to me, stat ing that Contessa Edith Rucellai, of Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, is assembling an Inter national Exhibition of cartoons and caricatures for the benefit of a Florentine charity, and would like to have the U. S. represented. In view of the fact that the countess learned of the American Association of Cartoonists and Caricaturists through TIME, we hope you will announce that the Association would be glad to receive and forward original cartoons and caricatures done by any professional artist. No ceremony or fee is attached...
...Paris, after several years in London, lives a thin-bearded, long, supple blade of a man, middle-ag-ing but of feverish vitality, whom "the foremost English novelist" (Ford Madox Ford) calls "the greatest living poet." This is not cant between members of a mutual adulation society. Many an-other able artist pays homage to Novelist Ford's bearded friend. They consult him about their pictures, statues, books, love affairs. They are not dazzled by his often eccentric habits and raiment, seeing within him a spirit like a flame blown in the wind. He is a genuine "original...
...incoming Governor marched beside the outgoing Governess? who did not take his arm. The husband of the outgoing Governess marched directly behind them? with his youngest daughter, the wife of the incoming Governor hav-ing refused to march with...
...motor sent to fetch him into audience with the Bey of Tunis, who probably wants, as everyone else does, some of his power, his money. Little Ogle, spared only by a check for vulgar cinema rights from the humiliation of hav-ing to borrow like the rest, abjures highbrow writing and is grateful for Olivia Tinker's hand in marriage. Mme. Momoro, hav-ing acquired what a devoted mother-of-the-world could for her son, departs in gratitude for Paris...