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Profoundly interesting, however, is the revolutionary restraint employed by Chaplin. The heaving of the breast, the rolling of the eyes, the pitching of the agony-stricken actors, in fact virtually all the fervid motions of emotion that have so long made cinema supporters sickish, are omitted...
...Japanese servants also showed remarkable courage. An Amah, or serving maid, who was only slightly over four feet tall, dragged her master, who weighed 175 pounds, two or three miles through the flames, refusing to think of her own safety until she had placed the stricken man in the care of the rescuers...
...Soviet Russia. In foreign exchange, rates for the mark are so vastly depreciated that they can be expressed only in incalculably large figures. In both London and New York prominent banks have refused to quote, buy or sell the vanishing German currency any longer. It is likewise being stricken off the prominent European stock exchanges, where ordinarily foreign exchange is traded in actively...
...midst of charred, stricken Tokyo Count Yamamoto formed his Cabinet...
Russia?no longer famine-stricken, no more a disease focus...