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Harvard undergraduates might blush to discover that Professor Hooton had to leave Harvard to get the inspiration for his latest work. It grew out of lectures on the organic basis of behavior which he delivered at Princeton last Spring. Pleased by his Princeton audience, he declared in his preface...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Tells Why Men Behave Like Apes And Vice- Versa in New Book | 11/30/1940 | See Source »

...show runs two hours without a blush; you can bring your mother-in-law to see it, and you don't have to worry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystery-Showman Dante of "Sim Sala Bim" Seems To Produce Beer Out of Empty Barrel | 11/21/1940 | See Source »

Dante is not the old-style of magician who merely palms cards. Although he proudly boasts there isn't a blush in his show, Dante himself has a captivating stage personality and with a slight change of subject matter could fit well into a "Panama Hattie." Of course there are bound to be slow moments (like the finale which features Uncle Sam and a blonde subbing for the Statue of Liberty), but you will never be able to forget, that you are watching the world's greatest magician...

Author: By L. L., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

...minutes [in a subway shelter] without becoming sick, he can stand more as a layman than I could stand after 35 years of qualified medical service." Another cried: "Within a quarter of a mile of Parliament there are conditions that would make a primitive tribe in South Africa blush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: We Can Take It | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Last week this select sorority initiated a new member, freckled-faced, redheaded Patty Berg, tomboy darling of U. S. golf galleries. Still at college (Minnesota junior), still naive enough to shake hands with all comers, to blush when interviewed and squeak "Gee Whillikers" when excited, 22-year-old Patty decided last week that she had had her fill of big silver cups, joined the Wilson boosters-at a salary of $5,000 a year, plus commission on "Patty Berg" clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Patty Goes Pro | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

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