Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makers of boyish fun dissent from such public discipline, let them reflect for a moment upon their own private situation. University students today live in a time of serious economic unrest, not to say social crisis. Lawless action has been rife in many an industrial quarter. There exists a threat, both overt and implied, to the whole American order of education, technology, law, business and industry, in which the youth of America's colleges hope to take future places of leadership, or at least of steady and gainful employment...
...smart for him and his girl friends, whom she converts by a great display of sheer innocence into her friends instead of his. Actor MacKenna (Merrily We Roll Along, Accent on Youth) has been playing erring dramatists so long he should be able to present the required blend of boyish and goatish behavior even though in the throes of somnambulism. Linda Watkins (June Moon) is equally adept at impersonating the girl whose shrewdness is masked by wide-open eyes and naive questions. Between them, they should manage to keep Penny Wise on the boards well into the peony season...
...main difficulty is that neither Robert Taylor nor Jean Harlow acts. Robert Taylor has concluded that all that is expected of him is to be irresistibly boyish, which he sets out to be ad nauseam. Jean Harlow, on the other hand, thinks her whore job done if she glowers her way through the show and charges around squalling away in the most strident voice she can muster. Occasionally she sees fit to force the wannest of smiles, which can scarcely compensate anybody for all the termagancy he has witnessed...
...crisply honest about the seamy side of the voyage. Financial worries led his grievances, but he stuck to his vow to "make no films, advertise nothing, perform no stunts," letting publisher's royalties from past and future books bear the main expense. Personnel problems were plentiful among his boyish crew, but chief offenders were the finicky U. S. college boys, who were apt to be diligent only about seducing native women. The radio brought a whole world's unwelcome troubles. Of the ship chandlers he bought from, only three around the globe were not robbers. End less...
...Sleuth Pinkerton rushed the President-elect to Washington by night, was rewarded by a White House invitation to create the U. S. Secret Service. After the Civil War, Pinkerton resumed his private work, grew rich and famed in the service of pioneering railroads beset by train robbers. But while boyish hearts thumped to the exploits of intrepid Pinkerton men in dime novels, Labor grew to hate the name more & more. For Pinkerton's was also making money by supplying armed guards to employers with labor troubles. In 1892 hard-boiled Henry Clay Frick imported 300 "Pinks" to fight...