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...Devil Within is one of those melodramas where the individual auditor is expected to curl up like a piece of burnt leather and crumble away with excitement. On the opening evening, professional observers refused to do this, owing to their long stern schooling in the mystery melodrama. The hide of an accomplished critic will not curl. Ordinary observers were reported to have curled slightly. In the last act, some of them even crumbled...
...York. Under the curse of heresy, he leaves a pulpit where for six years he has preached with the bold courage of his broad convictions. Today he is probably the newest and the greatest force in modern religious thinking and as such he comes in contact with the stern limits of the Presbyterian dogma...
...hard death, Employers still find public support for the breaking of strikes through resort to laws against criminal syndicalism. Any protest by labor unions is proof positive of the spread of sinister influence. And if cries are heard from the red or yellow press--the more need for stern suppression...
...weary, wilted appearance of the young women, ordered them to decide the contest by the toss of a penny. "Heads," cried the captain of the Kensal team in a thin voice. The referee moved the palm of one hand from the back of the other, exposed the stern profile of an Indian. Kensal...
...series of visual sensations. Artists should put down lines, lay on colors, with the simple purpose of giving the eyes an adventure instead of the complicated purpose of doing this while pretending only to show how Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire* looked at 43, or the arrogance of a stern Dutch captain in a gold helmet...