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...state administrations. Finally he had come to the top, to become the all but indispensable inter-bureau diplomat and master of complex finance and administration. At 48, balancing his personal books, the best that he could say was that he had broken even with his "fixed charges." By dint of such occasional frugalities as cutting his son's hair, he now had a modest house in a middle-class Washington suburb, a 285-acre farm in Virginia (a nerves-saving hobby for which he had mortgaged his house), one ancient and one-not-so-ancient...
...mansard-capped prime. Since Son Percy (Bobby Driscoll) is a regular little heller and Father (Don Ameche) a regular social booby trap, life is anything but simple for Mother (Myrna Loy). Finally one of Percy's pranks almost causes her to lose her second baby. But by dint of widespread praying, in which even the family terrier takes part, mother, child & movie pull through. A ragbag of wornout sentiment, So Goes My Love goes only soso...
Californians were not surprised at his decision, nor at his wisecrack about it. During 16 years in California politics, 44-year-old Bob Kenny had advanced steadily by dint of "a series of political suicides." For a long time after abandoning a career as a foreign correspondent (for U.P.) to become a lawyer-politician, he had even refused to take on a party label-"I was afraid to be a Democrat and ashamed to be a Republican." He had never bridled his sharp tongue. But able, personable Bob Kenny had led a charmed life in politics...
...probably seen most of Twain's witticisms in the Render's Digest and know his boyhood adventures by dint of having read "Tom Sawyer"; nevertheless "The Adventures of Mark Twain" is a worthwhile evening's entertainment...
...when you get back these first Report marks. But don't crease your manly brows, we both got "Unsat's" in our first report. That frightened the life out of us. So we went to work, as Gil Cross puts it, "to got this Harvard system down cold." By dint of hard work, clean living, and being nice to the markers, we can now boast that we have lifted our marks up to a high Low Pass...