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...constitute one full chapter in the history of Japan. During all that time the Pacific Ocean, so illimitable then to us, has been growing more narrow daily. The East and the West, which stood aloof without a thing in common except their common humanity, have been by that wonderful thread drawn closer and closer together, until today we stand shoulder to shoulder as friends and allies, defying the power of the force of evil to destroy that splendid heritage which we are agreed to share as common heirs...
Spiderweb stockings, made of thread so fine that it takes 279 miles of it to make a pound of silk, are the latest novelty in women's dress at Berlin. Dealers stated that they were only for show and could not outlast a single jazz...
...thousand gripping novels. A voluntary bath of blood unfortunately washed the glamor from this old Russian life and left the rest of the world amazed and horrified by tales of the temperamental Red gone politically and economically wild. To the conservative the last twist to Russia's woeful thread of fate is given by Charles Recht's report that Russia is using the United States as a model and trying to "Americanize its theatres, schools, and laws...
...adventurously, on a voyage of intellectual discovery, ready to acknowledge whatever conclusions his reason may bring him to. Without disparaging the Bishop's sincerity, it must, however, be said, that in all the labyrinth of his argument he seems to be clutching fast to a little thread which always brings him safely back to Anglican Orthodoxy...
...first part of the picture is hardly more than a succession of historical scenes, vividly pictured, and joined together by a thin thread of actual plot. The beauty of the photography and the turbulence of the action carry it through. George III is pictured as the king "who ever warred with freedom and the free," George Washington is remarkably acted by Arthur Dewey without undue exaggeration; and Samuel Adams and John Hancock are brought forth as the guiding spirits of the Northern Colonies. Paul Revere's ride and the Battle of Lexington are as vivid as screen art can make...