Word: daffyness
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High-climbing Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly, No. 1 flagpole-sitter of the Daffy Decade, went to a hospital in Englewood, N.J., with injuries suffered in a fall of ten feet from a flagpole at Palisades Amusement Park.
The result is a massive mural of foreign-colony life, a gallery of China hands, from those who are a little short of the worst (such as a missionary who hopes the Japanese will win and who tries to keep two Jewish doctors out of a hospital) to those who...
Jacob L ("Jakie") Webb, playful descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, turned up in the Army, at Fort Meade, Md. He had been missing since the middle of October, shortly after he wed café-daffy Leonore Lemmon. A rubber-check charge long pending against him has been dropped.
After that Sons o' Fun goes a bit daffy-down-hilly, though still heavily punctuated with gags and gunfire, "auction sales" and dancing in the aisles, black outs and whirring bats, actors chasing girls and women having babies. But the distaff side of the show makes itself felt with...
It starts off with a frivolous seance that backfires by conjuring up a man's beautiful, mischievous late wife, who floats spectrally through his household, splashing delicate poison on his second marriage. Since the daffy medium who contrived the lady's visit lacks the power to terminate it...