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...Model Wife, however, Miss Blondell is not a mother. She is a stenographer who spends most of her time avoiding the advances of her boss's son and keeping her marriage to boyish Dick Powell secret (the boss would fire her if she knew). This tiresome routine is not lightened by Comic Charles Ruggles, whose comedy consists of cracking his knuckles and playing drunk...
...future lies, wants him not to. Then Dutchy appears. A nice, hard blonde, the daughter of a fireman who drowns in the Charles, Dutchy is the essence of river-rattism Ralph is torn between Dutchy and Harriet; he lies elaborately to one about the other; but all his boyish subterfuges fall through. In the end he quits the sloppy vagabondage of the river to go to Tufts. But Dutchy has pushed him almost to the edge of honesty, and the leave-taking is genuinely...
...fallen over a hundred years behind in some of its work, and shows little interest in catching up. That's a long time to let a clock go around with no hands. IS HARVARD SLIPPING? Doesn't the University really care what time it is? Is it just a boyish prank on the part of the Maintenance Department? Or is Harvard too cheap to keep up the clock just because it doesn't face on the Yard...
Until the spring of 1934, Boris was just another playful Balkan monarch. He liked most of all the boyish pastime of playing with railroad trains - real ones. His royal hobby became so famous that Yugoslav engineers named him Locomotive Führer Honoris Causa. Then in 1934 the Bulgarian Army abolished Parliament and established Boris as the somewhat bewildered figurehead of a military dictatorship. Boris buckled down to serious work and within a year made it just plain dictatorship, with the Army very much in the background. He had married Princess Giovanna, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele...
After World War I, when women felt emancipated, they fell hard for the "boyish form" fashion. They tried to obliterate their breasts by binding them with tight brassieres-in many cases making them flabby and pendulous. Dr. LaRoe is a great admirer of the modern brassiere, which combines proper support with alluring and healthful freedom...