Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talking pictures - a formula which the French, like other European producers, have recently become able to imitate successfully. A theme song - now obsolete in Hollywood - is heartily employed, but "Sous les Toits de Paris" is a pretty song, gay and nostalgic ; it ought to be popular if native orchestras bother to work out a dance arrangement for it. The plot concerns a street-singer and a street-hawker who fall in love with the prettiest girl in their neighborhood. One of them wins her in spite of complications caused by a bully-boy who gets possession...
...stage show is interminable and not at all funny, although some of the dancing is fair. Don't bother to go unless you like Constance Bennett, but don't miss...
William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, leaving a reception given him at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, had his arm caught in the open door of a passing automobile, received a bloody wound. "It won't bother me. It's nothing at all," said he. But friends took him to have the wound sewed...
...become very excited over Rugby games, the only thing which can compare with American football, as Professor Gold-schmidt stated. The well-known German lecturer looks upon the average American as being extremely energetic, in fact a little too energetic at times. "They rush around so much and never bother to rest and reflect," he remarked. "They want to see how many miles they can make in a day, they are striving for the very best and quickest method of doing things, and the American business man who is in the biggest hurry seems to be greatly respected. In Germany...
...headliners of the Faculty have warmed over the dishes they are planned to serve, he will have to look around for other matitutinal diversion. For he is gradually learning to sleep nights in his pent-house room in Lowell House, although reflections on the tower above his head did bother him at first...