Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here, according to billboards, is "Conan Doyle's Immortal Story Masterfully Told." Here, "Masterfully," is Clive Brook at grips with modern gangsters, a Sherlock Holmes in love, a Sherlock Holmes who knows the cute trick of discovering biscuit crumbs on people's waistcoats, who pronounces "elementary" with the grand air, who jumps out of high balconies onto villainous necks, who wields acetylene torches and shoots to kill. This is no Sherlock Holmes, this is Hollywood's "Masterful" attempt to shatter an illusion...
...education. Interviewed last week, Mrs. Sunier declared: "Did I think Bertie would be President? Of course I didn't and I wish they wouldn't call him Herb. . . . There was none of this first day crying for him. No, sir! I remember I thought he was unusually cute. He never looked at me that he didn't smile. Was Bertie particularly bright? No, he wasn't but he paid such close attention...
...plot enters in the person of a beauteous native girl (Maria Alba) who has run away from marriage on a nearby island. She likes Fairbanks, gets into bed with him. He extricates himself, calls her "cute." Meanwhile Fairbanks' returning friends stop at the nearby island that Maria Alba has left, hire the natives to fake a capture and the beginning of a stake-burning, to be interrupted by the friends. The natives come, find the escaped girl, carry out the stake-burning in earnest. But as Fairbanks' homemade shorts get hot, the monkey turns on the radio, the savages flee...
Last week not one censorious peep came from the nation's reformers when from Bernarr Macfadden's publishing house issued a magazine containing twelve photographic portraits in the nude. The subjects were cute, provocative, but not in the usual Macfadden mode. They were all infants. Announced two months ago (TIME, July 25), Mr. Macfadden's new monthly magazine Babies Just Babies was out, edited by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt assisted by her daughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall...
...beauty (height 5 ft. 8 in.), his estranged wife: a daughter; in Memphis. Weight: 5 Ib. 11 oz. Said Baroness Paucci: "Yes, I love my husband. . . . That's why I married him. . . . We parted because we were jealous. . . . Women were always picking him up and telling him how cute...