Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Developing thereafter along conventional lines, Ready, Willing and Able provides a good-humored framework for some smash songs by Johnny Mercer and Richard Whiting, some expert tap dancing by Keeler and Dixon. Nobody in the cast has a reputation that demands dignified behavior, so even the writers seem to be having a marvelous time. It is the type of screen play which opens with the male leads doing a number without trousers and in which Comics Fazenda and O'Connell make their last exit walking absentmindedly into a lion truck...
...several First Families of Virginia. He took over the property in 1915. Thither, four years ago, was carried a strange patient, a delicate, wistful-eyed old Richmond lady who would not grow old. Her body, dressed as a little girl, was 61 years of age. Her mind and behavior were not more than seven...
...mice were his particular solace when he was president of the University of Michigan. After their initial enthusiasm for the youngest university president of his time, the regents of the University heckled him for his liberal views on education and student behavior, and for his refusal to let Michigan politicians dispose of University money. Disappointed, he resigned after four years. Almost immediately he divorced his wife, daughter of a Boston architect, on grounds of cruelty and technical desertion. He gave her and their two sons and daughter every dollar he owned (about...
...share in less than a twelvemonth. That rousing performance was almost duplicated in 1935, the stock rising in less than four months from around $9 to above $30 per share. And this time the Securities & Exchange Commission undertook a study of Tack's odd behavior, with particular reference to the big brokerage house of W. E. Hutton & Co. which it suspects of manipulating the stock through the purchases and sales its clients were advised to make...
...Kharkov managing staffs of a section of the latest Five-Year Plan have been satirized in Soviet films showing languid Communist typists squirting perfume over themselves and ogling their Bolshevik bosses-a deliberate exaggeration like all Communist propaganda. Last week Red bosses and Red typists seemed on good behavior, but Ambassador Davies hustled on out to the Kharkov Tractor Plant, thoroughly inspected the entire works, which now send a tractor off the assembly line every five minutes. Some unfortunate jinx caused the first tractor off the line as Mr. Davies approached to refuse to start. "It has been rejected," announced...