Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nelson cried that she had borne a son and started to hang up. A neighbor, however, snatched the receiver, yelled over the phone: "She's going to have a twin." The doctor: "Let me talk to Mrs. Nelson again." For five more minutes Mrs. Nelson followed telephoned directions, bore her second son, sighed. "Thank you, doctor," and hung...
Kimiko (Photographic Chemical Laboratories) is the first Japanese talking picture to be exhibited in the U. S. Shown last week at Manhattan's Filmarte Theatre, which specializes in importations, its net effect was to bore ordinary cinemaddicts, please amateurs of the curious and reassure Hollywood producers that Japan's prolific cinema industry is not a serious menace. Story of Kimiko concerns a domestic crisis in the up-to-date Yamamoto family. Thinking to arrange a reconciliation between her mother, Etsuko Yamamoto, with whom she lives, and her father, Shunsaku Yamamoto, who long ago ran off with a geisha...
...COMMONER MARRIED A KING-Baroness cle Vaughan-Washburn ($2.50). Guarded but self-revealing confessions of "Très Belle," who at 16 became the mistress of 65-year-old Belgian King Leopold II, bore him two sons, married him four days before his death...
...rain, if there were a god, was thinking Let it not be restricted to the very wise, the very great, but let all breathing kind, the munchers and chewers. the ignorant, the unhappy, those who toil in the furnace making innumerable copies of the same pot. those who bore red hot minds through contorted letters, and also Mrs. Jones in the alley, share my bounty...
...answer the telephone at night and 2) having to pay 70% of his income to the Government. For a while he dabbled with a string of race horses, has lately bought up and combined Toronto's Globe and Mail & Empire (TIME, Nov. 30). But he admits that newspapers bore him, and no one has yet discovered why he set up his broker, C. George McCullagh, as a bigtime publisher...