Word: erful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...High in Kansas City. His parents wanted him to be a lawyer, but he borrowed enough money from a rich and eccentric great-aunt to take a course in the New York Academy of Dramatic Arts. When he got a bit-part in a play called The Ne'er Do Well he wrote home such glowing accounts of his success on the stage that he was reluctant to ask for help when the play was taken off. After playing one-night stands in a variety of tank towns he settled down to stock in bigger cities. He was featured...
...Er petticoat was yaller an' 'er little...
...er name was Supi...
...closer association. However, I have seen one or two fairly good-looking girls at Radcliffe". Ah, the blase air with which Mr. Dennis utters his profound observations! Lord Byron could hardly have written it more grandly. We understand, of course, that he has investigated the matter thoroughly, and yet--er--we wonder if he has ever tried to get a Radcliffe dormitory on the telephone in the evening? And has he taken into account the statistical proof that 57 per cent of the Radcliffe women marry Harvard men? "They seek no closer association", say you, Mr. Dennis? But, of course...
...BOTTOM-Excellent revival of Gorki's philosophic Russian ne'er-do-wells (usually called The Lower Depths...