Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loosed its lusty voice from the proscenium of the Plymouth theatre, just recently quieted after the robust howls of "Three Men on a Horse." Like its predecessor, "Personal Appearance" is definitely big-box-office. The roar of good, healthy American laughter is long and very loud. Your people, sir, enjoy "Personal Appearance...
...last week Stalin's pampering of Stakhanovites, who are not necessarily Communists, had roused the Young Communists to scoffing gibes at "stuck-up Stakhanovites" and disclosures of the pampering they enjoy. According to the Young Communists, one 17-year-old Stakhanovite mechanic in a Moscow carburetor plant has been swept into such a whirl of balls, banquets, meetings in his honor and general "bourgeois publicity" topped off by floods of flattering poetry that this carbureting Stakhanovite did only 16 days work in December, nine in January and seven in February...
...state has reached a sorry pass when it must consider such a ridiculous proposal as this tax bill. With all the luxuries and semi-luxuries which its citizens enjoy, why must Massachusetts talk of imposing insane taxes on such vital institutions as its savings banks? Amusement, radio, gasoline, cigarette taxes, heavy as they are already, would provide adequate revenue, and prove infinitely more welcome than the imposition of exorbitant assessments on savings ascents, large and small...
Somewhat suppressed is the humor of the distinguished pair: Ginger's candid pertness and Fred's urbane, nonchalant thrusts. In this picture they go through a rather desultory courtship, which might amuse those who enjoy witnessing embarrassment, but can hardly satisfy those who look for the crisp and the bright. The other thread of romance between Randolph Scott and Harris Hilliard, adds but little...
Actually Mr. Morgan was doing no more than demonstrating how a male oldster can enjoy his leisure, for the Committee did not require his personal reappearance. He attended that session only because, as he said: "These things are important to me. I don't know so much about the details as the others, but I am responsible. Besides, I didn't want to miss the party...