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WHAT PRICE GLORY?- The marines in France illustrate the stern principle that everything is fair in love...
...bubbles back up to the surface, he told his comrades that they had indeed found the Merida, a ship sunk 14 years ago in collision. She was lying on her starboard side, he said, still well preserved; he had been able to read her name on bows and stern...
...still retains a woman's prerogative to change her mind, thought U.S. golf enthusiasts who have long wanted to see her play. Besides, her stern decision makes no reference to informal matches. She might, hoped many, come over some day with her ex-Brritish Amateur Champion brother, Roger, and have a friendly world's brother-sister championship with the Chicago Cummingses, ex-National Champion Edith and ex-Intercollegiate Champion Dexter...
Siege offers one of those rare rewards of persistent cinema attendance. It takes a psychological situation and preserves its drama. Usually drama in the cinema is a matter of steel and movement. Siege is concerned simply with the difficulties of a young bride whose vivacity outlaws her in a stern and antiquated household. The quiet tyranny of Mary Alden as the household head is conspicuously good. Svend Gade's direction is a minor miracle of imaginative and penetrating treatment...
...Smithsonian Institution at Washington stands a very old airplane with a stern but bedraggled air, like that of a dead buzzard stuffed by an inexpert taxidermist. It was built by Inventor S. P. Langley in 1903, is said to have once wobbled in the ether over the Potomac River. On it is a label: "The first man-carrying airplane in the world capable of sustained flight...