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...just as mixed a race as the Germans; they could hardly be more!" cried this Lord Spiritual. "This nonsense about 'race'-as if there were some poison in the ancestry of Judaism which must be guarded against- is sheer hallucination. It is preposterous! . . . We loathe and detest this attitude obtaining in Germany and protest...
...disadvantage of big banks, only a fraction of whose large corporate and business deposits are covered by the $5,000 limit. But having signed & sealed a truce with President Roosevelt last autumn, the bankers have discreetly bowed to a New Deal measure which many of them detest...
...More Spring, followed the fortunes of a group of indigent outcasts who sought shelter in a street cleaner's tool shed in Central Park. Still in the realm of fantasy, this rueful little fable cut close enough to the essence of lean-year reality to please those who detest animals that behave like humans...
...Like We're Not Dressing (see below), this is a casual musicomedy in which there are no chorus girls and most of the songs are allotted to one young man. It makes tentative gestures at satirizing Radio, as when ''Uncle Pete" (Allen Jenkins) elaborately professes to detest children, and a Jewish soap manufacturer (Joseph Cawthorne ) lets his wife, niece and cousins run his programs. Twenty Million Sweet lie arts mostly concerns a fatuous singing waiter (Dick Powell) who becomes a celebrated crooner. Discovered singing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze'' by a brash, noisy scout...
Francesca said she is "really a very good little girl. In fact, I never, never drink, and I just detest speakeasies." Asked how she knew that she detested speakeasies when she never drank, Miss Bruning appeared flustered and finally said she "had been to a 'speak' with a thirsty friend once a long time ago." Quick to change the subject, she added, "I love to travel, especially in airplanes; and when I'm on the ground I like to dance and swim...