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Landing at Puerto Barrios on the Caribbean, the pair made their way by train through the humid tropic zone of the Atlantic slope, on their way to the capital, Guatemala City. In their journey they were assisted throughout their stay by the officials of the United Fruit Company, who did everything to forward their researches...
...there or where they are going. Slowly the realization comes to them that they have died, that their destination is eternity. It is an unusual picture because it contains none of the elements commonly accepted as having picture appeal. A dowager, a charwoman, a financier, a drunkard and a pair of unhappy lovers are capably presented by a cast that includes Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helen Chandler, Leslie Howard. When the interest weakens it is not the fault of the picturemakers but of the writing. Playwright Sutton Vane was not completely successful in creating the terror and grandeur that his theme...
...Institution of marriage, the machinery of the organized Church, the intricacies of modern education, and the Rotary wheel, there is no other social contrivance in the United States so wide in scope as the present system of Daylight Saving. Twice a year by the simple motion of turning a pair of pointers on a numbered surface, the twentieth-century wage-slave achieves his moment of supreme triumph: he discovers that the clock was made for him, not he for the clock. This Thought should be expanded by a Small Group of Serious Thinkers somewhere, whose shoulders are heavily burdened...
...camp (Wishery) was a woman condemned for selling six pairs of silk stockings. Her sister in San Francisco had sent her the stockings. In Vladivostok, where she was living then, a pair of silk stockings would fetch 15 roubles ($7.50) and she was poor. After her arrest, carrying her 3-year-old daughter, she had traveled, largely on foot, some 15,000 mi. to the camp...
...truth is that a mutilated portion of the clipping came to me through two or three pairs of hands the last pair being horny with toil and a trifle shy on literary appreciation. Whoever had extracted it originally had been concerned apparently only with its central subject matter and had sheared away (I have since discovered by examining the files of TIME) the opening paragraphs in which TIME was mentioned and the closing lines, including the author's name...