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Vexed at such snubs, Mr. & Mrs. Wright Sr. vowed that their son should remain married. Daughter Mary Belle, called in the Press "The Do-As-You-Please Bride," described her marriage as "simply scrumptious." "I don't care if Mamma is a darn good lawyer," declared Mary Belle, "Edward and I will hire a lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: God & Baby | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...hurt," pleads a roadside poster in a current upstate New York highway safety drive. Last week Commissioner William F. Carey of New York City's Sanitation Department, which operates more vehicles (3,000) than any other municipal department, declared that such temporary safety drives are not "worth a darn." Having tried them without success the Sanitation Department two years ago formed a permanent safety division whose sole job is to decrease accidents by rigorous investigation and constant regulation. Since then, accidents to the department's trucks have steadily declined until last month they reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Four Frictions | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...blacksmith with a little steel, a little leather and a couple of buckles can always turn out the fundamentals for a darn good seance but we call it MAGIC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 13, 1936 | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

Then one of the cocky Northwestern students completely crushed the little fellow by saying, "You darn fool, you should have taken the dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...abetted by Ethel Merman, whose singing is almost as bad as Cantor's, the beauteous Sally Eilers, and stooge Parkyakarkus, Eddie's latest certainly affords your ticket's worth of amusement. The utter impossibility of the last fifteen minutes of trick photography does not detract from its being darn funny and surprisingly breath-taking...

Author: By H. M. P. jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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