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...hireling of the power interests. The Insulls and others paid Moses' campaign expenses. He hasn't been a square-shooter in New Hampshire politics in a generation. He votes dry and drinks wet, pats the War veteran on the back with one hand and cuts his throat with the other." Husky Senator-elect Brown chews Navy cut plug, makes a thundering speech...
Smilin' Through (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an old-fashioned cinema, gentle, lachrymose and romantic, calculated to make the throat of any susceptible cinemaddict like that of a giraffe swallowing oranges. The first lump occurs when John Carteret (Leslie Howard) is found moping, at the turn of the century, in his handsome English garden. Disconsolate about a dead fiancee, he is reluctant to console himself by becoming foster-father to her orphaned niece Kathleen. The niece grows up into Norma Shearer and falls in love with a young American (Fredric March) who has come to England to enlist...
Nobody expects humor in Author Tully's conscientiously grim works, but sometimes it is there. "She was beautiful. Her waist, open at the throat, showed the outline of her bosom, flushed pink and white...
...universal tendency in such cases to shower sympathy on the workers, whose pickets are broken up, whose assemblies are forbidden, and whose political activity is curtailed. Much sympathy is doubtless deserved, but it is a mistake to assume that the operators have no reasonable case. The cut throat competition of small independent mines demands of owners a drastic economy even in prosperous times. When conditions are poor and orders scarce that need is even more pressing. Wages must be cut if the mines are to operate at all; and then as always, the present impasse develops...
...Falaise, France, Camille Labourgois drank a glass of wine without noticing a wasp in the glass, was stung in the throat, choked to death...