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Errol Flynn, God's gift to this puny human race, displays how the perfect man should disport himself when caught between the realism of a woman's world and the idealism of a life of complete social vapidity. Pursued by Joan Blondell, who is not over-subtle in her go-getting, Mr. Flynn knocks out Allan Jenkins, prize fighter extraordinary, fights in his place, and pursues his inconsequential way through the rest of the film...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/5/1937 | See Source »

First picture in the new LIFE symbolically showed an obstetrician holding by the heels a just-born baby whom he is briskly slapping into mundane consciousness. Caption: "Life Begins." First LIFE feature, Franklin Roosevelt's Wild West, showed how WPA workers disport themselves in frontier style in the bars and dance halls of the new-hatched towns of New Deal and Wheeler, Mont., where the vast Fort Peck Dam project is under way. Prize shot: A pile of tangled wire dumped outside a rooming house, captioned, "The only idle bedsprings in 'New Deal' are the broken ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: LIFE Launched | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Memphis "socialites" have been at least tutored if not bred to the better tradtion of southern manners. None would disport her thick, blackened thigh to Pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...famed Ambassador-at-Large. As go-getting Mr. Snare mellowed into "Father Snare," his club historically changed the mores of Havana's better class. Today week-end drunks are anything but smart. And golf and tennis unchaperoned have become the birthright of Cuban debutantes, if they disport themselves at the select, discreet and quiet Havana Country Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Snare Jubilee | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...tactfully persistent she will show you where this group eats every day or what hour that coterie file in and take their seats at their favorite table by the window. She will point out where the public-school boys customarily sit, and where the St. Groticsex boys disport themselves. She will tell you that she has seen individual units of these disparate sects thrown together at the same table, quite frequently, but that she has never, from one year to the next, seen them introduce themselves, or heard them utter anything more intimate than "Please pass the salt." --Yale Daily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/1/1934 | See Source »

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