Word: callower
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...picture is a talented professional gambler named Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck). She plays cards honestly but she always wins. Her social life is even more improbable. When her father dies she refuses, though penniless, to marry a jolly but unscrupulous bookmaker (Pat O'Brien). When she meets a callow socialite named Garry Madison (Joel McCrea), she falls in love with him immediately and marries him soon afterward...
...Kenyon Nicholson's famed play The Barker, directed by Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade, Berkeley Square) and designed to re-establish the vanished prestige of Actress Clara Bow. She is Lou, hardboiled dancer in a carnival, who, to oblige the mistress of the proprietor (Preston Foster), makes advances to his callow son (Richard Cromwell), ends by marrying...
Ranking with the H.A.A. as one of Harvard's less exclusive clubs is the Harvard Cooperative Society. In former days, that ancient and rather misinterpreted tradition of the Society, the Dividend, gave the organization a solidarity which dues-paying members of swankier clubs rarely felt. Nowadays the callow student regards his $1.76 annual salary as a mere wage for the trouble of eternal searching through his pockets for a coop card...
...wheel of course). But this summer there was much hot labor moving out of The President's House. For days on end the founder of the Harvard House Plan could be seen carrying bridge-lamps, books, Old Masters, pots and pans out of the Yard like any callow Senior headed for a furniture exchange...
Number One. Murray ("Hump") Humphries, said to have grown handsome since the days of his callow youth when police used to take snapshots of him for their rogues galleries (see cut). Unlike his imprisoned onetime chief, Al Capone, he shuns the public eye. He is about 34, athletic, has brains. He is credited with having persuaded Capone to enter the cleaning & dyeing racket, headed that department of the Capone industries. He is now board chairman of whatever is left of the Capone syndicate. Public Enemy Humphries claims to be legitimately interested in the cleaning business, chuckles at police...