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Divorced. By Phyllis Haver Seeman, 46, bouncy, blonde bathing beauty of many an oldtime Mack Sennett custard-slinging silent film: William Seeman, 53, millionaire Manhattan wholesale grocer (White Rose brand); after 16 years of marriage; in Reno. Said she: "Bill has too much vitality. I'm getting older and want a little peace...
...principals in No Time for Love paste each other pleasantly with verbal custard pies. But the freewheeling foolishness leaves little time or energy for acting...
...picture of the Democratic convention if Roosevelt declines the nomination: "The greatest show that the party has put on since Madison Square Garden. A thousand men, suddenly free, with their shackles shaken off overnight, are going to put on such a ghost dance as will look like a custard-pie supper in a madhouse...
This was a job for Paul Bunyan; to wrest an all-weather road from the jealous Northland between early spring and autumn; to span the fierce, death-cold rushing rivers, the black custard quagmires; to cut switchbacks across the Great Divide, to make the way between the Arctic and the U.S. for a highway which some day may be as common as the Boston Post Road...
...Symphony brought him further official plaudits. Outside Russia, music lovers were more critical. Shostakovich's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies combined spontaneous gusto, originality and nobility, with a curious taste for trite themes and musical horseplay, as if the composer were constantly fighting down an impulse to throw musical custard pies...