Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnson'' on a garish hotel terrace, the escapade takes on a tawdriness which a similar situation in Yes, My Darling Daughter (see p. 46) escapes. Fulton goes after them, pretending to be on his vacation, and brings them home. Everything turns out all right when the boy's father cables a reconciliation from Europe, adding that he will make his son a vice president in his mill...
...verge of frenzy in marrying off his preening elder daughter Clarisse to a well-heeled lawyer. When Clarisse (Jeanne Greene) has impoverished the attorney, she comes home to roost, appropriates her sister Delia's college tuition money for remodeling a fur coat, tries to get Delia's boy friend David too. David conveniently writes a novel, gets $25,000 for the movie rights, spurns Clarisse, marries Delia. Papa Kadan is further gratified when his stupid son Bert, an amateur boxer, marries the daughter of his wealthy business rival. Less amusing than Potash & Perlmutter, less sure-fire than Abie...
...communicative mood was Mr. Morgenthau last week. He referred to a story about a possible U. S. loan to Germany as having been written by "one of those city slickers." Said he: "I think some country boy sold him the story." While Mr. Morgenthau was discussing bigtime money matters in press and private conference last week, Chairman Leo T. Crowley of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. had something to say to the nation's bankers on distinctly smalltime money matters. Releasing his 1936 report, Mr. Crowley lit into the members of FDIC for dabbling in speculative bonds. Warned...
Sisi gave Franz Joseph two more children, a boy and a girl. At Rudolf's birth Franzi was so overjoyed that he decorated the infant with the ancient order of the Golden Fleece. For once Sophie could find nothing wrong with Sisi's conduct but when her fourth grandchild was unpatriotically born in Hungary, Sophie was ostentatiously uninterested, even sniffed doubts of its legitimacy. What with Sophie's suspicious enmity and Franz Joseph's fond indulgence, it would have been a miracle if Sisi had turned out to be a model wife and mother. No miracle...
...gracious lady nature had intended her to be. Grace, left at home in Silver Bow, caught Louise's old beau on the rebound, married him and became the most respectable matron in town. She had her domestic troubles, too, but she managed her husband like the small boy he was, soon had him where she wanted...