Word: beds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they hold their liquor: "All Latins have trouble with their livers and if they drink too much they get very sick." On puerile obscenity they thrive: "The simplest reference to the bathroom and the elimination processes of the digestive tract will plunge them into uncontrollable hysterics. ' In bed Latin males, according to Esquire's female researcher, are poor company: "They spend far more time in words than in action." They are "all worn out at 23," but their "lack of masculine energy" does not prevent them from boasting of their prowess. "My advice to the American male...
...undertaking $35 to $1,000; cremation, urn and a niche in a columbarium $50 to $10,000; a single grave lot, seldom more than $50; a modest headstone $50. A few crematists, to popularize their profession, are charging only $50 to perform all disposal functions from death bed to hole-in-the-wall. Cremation in a modern oil furnace takes only 90 minutes...
Stage Struck (Warner) depends for its punches on the kind of scene that makes critics unhappy and audiences hysterical. Such a scene is the one in which Dance Director George Randall (Dick Powell), hiding under the bed of Peggy Revere (Joan Blondell) when her onetime lover appears, has his protruding legs nipped by a Great Dane until he and the dog crawl out of the room. Less carefully tested but just as broad is the Yacht Club Boys' parody of a vaudeville tumbling act and their agreeable ditty, The Income Tax. There is some sketchy hoofing, a Harburg...
Best time to bathe, according to Dr. Behrend, is just before going to bed...
...tried hard to partake of twentieth-century gaiety, with only John Harvard's likeness and the glow of the dancing torch-flames to remind of the celebrated past. The Pop Concert popped, and the merry ones sipped and stepped away the night, and a weary Vagabond crawled off to bed, already envying his progeny-to-be their four-hundredth birthday party...