Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Sheridan is coy. Apparently she loves only the Lampoon. For she is content to sit out on the West Coast, surrounded by still cameras, and beckon to the Poon boys to come out and learn some oomph. This is rank injustice to the rest of the college. Since apparently only she holds the key to money-making success, since most Harvard alumni are reputedly oomphless share croppers and Fuller-brush men, Miss Sheridan is needed at college to raise a new generation of oomphy grads...
Otto Adolph Wittwer is not content with the way things are going. He has money, inherited from his Swiss immigrant parents. At 45, he has a nice little business of his own in Seattle, selling hair rinses and shampoo (which sweetly scent his two-story building). He is married to a beauteous exactress wife. Nevertheless, Mr. Wittwer is not content with the way things are going...
...panaceas grow like seedless oranges, his One-Two Plan began to bloom, on the radio, on the platforms of clubs and societies, in gatherings of small rural home owners, little business men. Mr. Wittwer aimed to complete a nationwide organization by 1940. Soon Otto Wittwer hopes to be more content with the way things are going...
Being anxious to avoid charges of "spreading propaganda," the Committee on Elementary Modern Language Instruction, which is sponsoring the film, chose the most innocuous subject possible. That is a wise move; there are so many people who will object to any German movie being shown, regardless of content, that to present an out-and-out propaganda film would only make criticism more vehement. But once the novelty of German films as such has worn off, the U. T. might well experiment with Nazified productions...
...West's opulent curves. For Mae, who fancies herself no end as a literatus and has always jealously insisted on authoring her own scripts, this time took a tip from Producer Cowan. She let Funnyman Fields write in his own part, ad lib to his heart's content. Best ad lib was carefully excised from the picture. Murmured Fields one day to the goat which he mistakes for Flower Belle: "Darling, have you changed your perfume...