Word: answer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who regard Elizabeth Bergner as the answer to a moviegoer's prayer, the revival of "Catherine the Great," at the Fine Arts will hold great appeal. Miss Bergner portrays the Empress Catherine II of Russia amid flocks of befrilled and bewigged gentlemen, vainly attempting to rule an empire while her mad husband philanders and rages...
That isn't so bad. But if any young thing wanders into the inner depths of the magazine, where they continue the stories, she finds the answer to the squirmer's prayer--something with a "Y-front," presumably for Yale men, which protects squirmers from becoming "nervous nonentities" and "makes sitting a joy." Soon comes Mr. 1937 stepping out in "the new order of the day in next-to-body wear for men," which for a nominal fee gives you "a flat midriff and a military swing...
Four days later Homer Martin, President of the United Automobile Workers, invaded New Jersey and made a speech at Newark in answer to Mr. Hoffman. He pointed out that strikes are legal. "What is the difference," he asked "if a man sits down inside or sits down outside?" The only difference he could find was that sitting down inside is easier and safer for the striker. To the argument that sit-down strikes break property laws, he argued back that the right to a good pay check is a property right just as much as the right to own property...
...Vatican and Mrs. Brady was living in Casa del Sole, the villa near the Vatican which Nicholas Brady' bought years ago. Minister Macaulay asked the woman who had become his friend to be his wife. She reflected, departed for the U. S. and sent him her answer during the ensuing months. Her ''yes," denied by loyal friends until Mrs. Brady felt ready to admit it, was a surprise to Manhattanites who had seen the two casually together...
...Answer: "I didn't get it back from the income...