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...first uplifting introduction to old Horatio. It was "Bound to Rise" and it was behind a barn near a door which was used by the farm hands when they made up the cows' beds fresh every morning. As he read the pages and heard stout Alger speak out loud and bold, the Vagabond truly felt like some watcher of the skies. Here was a man-man, did he say?-a youth of sixteen years is more like-who went to the city. On his very first day there, this boy was walking on an icy sidewalk. A dignified gentleman...
...Philip's loud snort of disgust answered the question before his torrent of denials. It was very evident that...
President Hoover tossed tradition to the winds and reaped a loud round of public applause when he named a woman to the delegation. She was Miss Mary Emma ("May") Woolley, 68-year-old president of Mount Holyoke College. The President chose her because "the whole question of disarmament is and has been of profound interest to the women of the United States." Aside from her academic attainments, Miss Woolley seemed to qualify for her high post by membership...
...Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine, has a freckled nose. Hell Divers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a successful merger of two well known types of cinema entertainment: aeronautical spectacle (like Hell's Angels, Dirigible) and man-to-man comedy (like What Price Glory, The Big Parade). It is also a loud advertisement for the U. S. Navy. One of the shortcomings of Hell Divers is the fact that spectacle and plot are not well integrated. Parts which are pure spectacle are noisy, informative and magnificently photographed. Best shots: a covey of bombing planes wheeling one by one to dive...
Once the House got moving, it clicked off legislation at top speed. Much to the loud dismay of voteless Washingtonians, it approved proposals by Michigan's Mapes for a District of Columbia tax on incomes and increases in the gasoline and estate levies. It whirled through the Moratorium in eight hours (see col. 3). It passed a measure appropriating $203,000,000 for bonus loans, $120,000 for additional employment agencies. It okayed the $100,000,000 capital increase for the Federal Land Banks after voting down (190-to-165) a general farm moratorium amendment...