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...corporate mazes of super-holding companies. There is a short blackout which permits Will Rogers to drawl his celebrated mot: "A holding company is where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you." There are scenes in which consumers vainly protest their light bills, farmers vainly beg for electric service, a parent explains to his little daughter that the Government would be inefficient if it tried to supply electricity. The little daughter, observing that the people trust the Government to run the post office, concludes: "The people are awfully drunk...
...Spanish Revolution, Marie's granddaughter Marie (Annabella, this time a blonde) tumbles off Wings of the Morning, her grand mother's Derby candidate, into the life of Kerry (Henry Fonda). When Kerry swaps Marie six nags for Wings of the Morning, the gypsies make her go and beg her bargain back. What makes the scene confusing for Marie is that she still has on trousers, and that Kerry is bathing in a small tin tub; Sex, however, is established on its conventional lines by the time Kerry's Destiny Bay runs against Marie's Wings...
There in a squalid hovel of mats she teaches her children to beg, goes out alone in the midst of rioting to help loot a rich merchant's house. Though trampled and nearly shot, she gets away with a pouch of jewels. She gives them to Wang, keeping only two pearls-"not to wear-I am too plain-but to look at when I am alone...
...limited to 125 next year. That is all that Professor Davison, with the means allowed him, will be able to accommodate. This year the course was planned to operate with only one section man, but when the musical neophytes trooped in by the hundreds, Professor Davison had to beg of the administration another assistant. He was reluctantly granted, with the insistence that he was only there to meet an emergency, and could not possibly be retained next year...
...Attorney General, sitting in his red-carpeted room in the handsome new Justice Building, is justifiably proud of his office's progress since the great, corset-wearing William Pinkney quit the job because he did not wish to live in Washington, and since William Wirt had to beg for two washstands. Not until 1822 did the Attorney General have official quarters, then only one room in the War Department. Not until 1870 was there a Department of Justice, although duties wished on the Attorney General had been tremendous. Jealousies arising from Congressional dislike of reorganization delayed for a half...