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...York's Communist Daily Worker had not given its stamp of approval to local revivals of four old W. C. Fields comedies and last week Columnist David Platt told why: "It is because three of the four, The Bank Dick, My Little Chickadee and You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, are shot through with white chauvinism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dictum | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...learns that not all her father's money can buy the ideals and dreams of a starving rural doctor. In Avon Periodicals' Campus Romances, a girl who steals examination notes to win a boy's love is shocked to hear him say: "If you'd cheat like that . . . you'd cheat in other ways." (Her sadder & wiser conclusion: "I know now that love will come when the time is ripe.") In Super Publications' Love Problems & Advice, an ambitious secretary discovers in the nick of time that $100-a-week salaries and mink coats from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Love on a Dime | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...game's immortals, Cardus writes: "His cricket is compounded of soft airs and fresh flavors. The bloom of the year is on it [and] the very brevity of summer is in it ... Woolley, so the statisticians tell us, often plays a long innings. But time's a cheat . . . The brevity in Woolley's batting is a thing of pulse and spirit, not to be checked by clocks, but only to be apprehended by imagination. He is always about to lose his wicket; his runs are thin-spun ... An innings by him is almost too unsubstantial for this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thin-Spun Runs | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...behalf of the National Highway Users Conference, Mrs. Emily Post, doyenne of U.S. manners, wrote a 46-page treatise called "Motor Manners." Sample mannerisms: "... A gentleman will no more cheat a red light or a stop sign than he would cheat in a game of cards. A courteous lady will not 'scold' others raucously with her automobile horn any more than she would act like a 'fishwife' at a party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...order not to let the preferential ballot cheat you out of your franchise vote for as many men as you want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classes Select 7 Councilmen From 40 Candidates Today | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

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