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There is a little strip of territory between Peru and Chile, called Tacna-Arica, which both countries claim and nobody really owns pending a plebiscite ordered by President Coolidge as arbitrator. If there is any man who really rules the little strip it is General John J. Pershing, President of the Plebiscite Commission, who is sitting tight in the little town of Arica...
...shoreline, then west to Michigan Avenue, then north again past the hotel with a burst of speed, having completely circled the scene of their crime. Lincoln Park policemen on the running boards of commandeered automobiles followed, volleying. Up the "Gold Coast," with pretentious residences on one side, a little strip of lawn and the broad lake on the other, the chase led, thence into Lincoln Park. The bandit car collided with another and was wrecked. Two of the men escaped. The third commandeered a taxi, trampled a woman occupant on the floor, and went wildly on firing at his pursuers...
...summary can do justice to Mr. Bryan's purple passages, such as: "Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow; Evolution strikes out the stars and deepens the gloom that enshrouds the tomb...
...talking about, until all rules of classification have been badly shaken, if not wholly destroyed. Jazz and moving pictures were brought into the fold by Gilbert Seldes, in his book "The Seven Lively Arts," and Mr. Seldes has now stretched an arm into limbo and brought back the comic strip, which has long been devoured avidly by children, and surreptitiously by grown-ups. It seems that comic strips, when done by such competent artists as Webster, Briggs, and Rube Goldberg give a more realistic picture of bits of American life than any of the modern novels of unromantic detail have...
...current New Republic Mr. Seldes calls these purveyors of amusement "sour commentators," and of the work of Goldberg, for example, says: "It is extraordinarily unkind, yet without rancor, and is almost dispassionate in its cruelty." One can agree heartily with Mr. Seldes when he praises the writers of comic strips because they never verge into the nauseating sentimentality of most magazines and moving pictures. Yet they are, in his phrase, "male and ugly," with negligible plots, formed of cruelty and violence. His reason, however, as to why the comic strip is read so widely by the very people...