Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teases sailors out of gifts and dance tickets. Of one breezy gob she becomes enamoured and over her he starts a free-for-all fight. No peace-lover, his past record is against him when he is arrested. Unless he comes out of this scrape, he will be court-martialed...
...court the virginal teaser appears as a voluntary witness, convinces the magistrate that she was the cause of the fight and tells the crowded courtroom (which includes her mother) that she is a lady of joy. The magistrate discharges the prisoner-gob, saying, "Instead of protecting you from these young men, we should protect them from you." This is not one of the best pieces, but it is one of Clara Bow's best. One Jack Oakie, as a sailor named "Searchlight," ought to get somewhere as a character actor with the flattest face on the two-dimensional medium. James...
Last year her petition for citizenship was refused by a Chicago District Court. Later the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed this decision, directed the granting of citizenship, on the ground that Mme. Schwimmer was naturally disqualified from bearing arms by reason...
...this point that the U. S. Department of Justice filed a brief with the Supreme Court opposing Mme. Schwimmer's naturalization & the Circuit Court decision. Said the brief: "The fact that the applicant . . . may or may not be able or willing to bear arms is not the sole consideration. The mental attitude of the individual toward the Government and its defense, with its necessary influence on others, is a vital matter. . . . She says she has 'no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.' . . . If every citizen believed as she does...
...York recently arrested several dozen chasers and their lawyer employers. But the arrests did not improve conditions. The State Supreme Court decided to see what might be done. It appointed one of its justices, Isador Wasservogel, to investigate and make recommendations. Last week he did do, recommending that 74 members of the New York bar be disciplined. Summarized, his cogent suggestions were...