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...Kibbee). When his grandfather's solicitor (Henry Stephenson) calls to announce that Ceddie is heir to the Earldom of Dorincourt, Ceddie and Dearest embark for England. When they get there the tragic separation of Ceddie and his mother, whom the crotchety Old Earl (Smith) refuses to meet, is soft-pedaled. The emphasis is placed on Ceddie's dealings with his grandfather, upon whom his influence is so healthy that the Old Earl presently stops dunning his tenants, takes to churchgoing, is cured of his gout. The menace of an imposter Qackie Searl) for Ceddie's heirdom appears...
...formal yet vividly human behavior of his Japanese, the confusion in the minds of the young generation about their duties, their chances in life. The extremes of poverty and industrialism in Tokyo, the meaningless political suicides, the continual troop movements toward Manchuria, are keenly described. Despite several soft episodes and what will seem to many readers an over-facile ending, the novel has the steady strength of an almost reportorial reality...
...Nations. At the bottom of this cookie jar was a conditional jagged stone in the shape of intimations that the Great Powers would now be willing to take up the question of restoring to Germany her lost colonies, but the Great Orator's speech subsided with such soft organ notes as these...
Fortnight ago officers of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association approached Manager James E. Darst of St. Louis' Municipal Auditorium, suggested that he sell only soft drinks at the bar during the annual school superintendents' convention. Instead Manager Darst added two extra bartenders. Last week the convention ended and Manager Darst could preen himself on his acumen. The 8,000 superintendents had consumed more liquor at his bar than did the American Legion last autumn...
...modern movement began as a revolt against the conventional prettiness of the oldtime classical ballet. Isadora Duncan fought for freedom, seemed revolutionary when she appeared in soft Grecian costumes rather than stiffly-starched tarlatan, interpreted music according to her own personal reaction. The great Isadora had an influence on the Russian Choreographer Michel Fokine who did most to emancipate the ballet from its rigid routine, its stiff, old-fashioned patterns. But the classical technique persists, still holds claim to first importance wherever ballet is given...