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...Gad gentlemen, I have you on the hip! As a cover-to-cover reader of both TIME and LIFE, please inform me: is The Goldwyn Follies worth seeing...
Rapidly the halycon days of leisurely warmth are approaching, when one can peal off his coat and relax on the banks of the Charles, of sensuous nights, when one can still peel his coat and gad about in open automobiles. Each year without fail the coming of spring means the return from hibernation of America's only nationally recognized institution. When you see pictures of broad-smiling, becapped youths and old young men in the papers who are reported to be "holding out", when mothers miss their offspring regularly in the long afternoons, when mayors start exercising their arm muscles...
...smart, got ahead fast, was soon doing a brokerage business on the side. When he met Mette Gad, a Danish girl on a visit to Paris, her strapping body, naturalness and intelligence appealed to him. They married, settled down to raise a family. Paul was making good money, Mette was social and a good spender. Shortly before the birth of their first child, Paul took up drawing as a hobby. Gradually he became more & more interested in it, took to painting. But Mette never suspected how serious he was, even when he sent a picture to the Salon...
...waste its fragrance on the desert air..." Ah, Rjskjsky, whose rapier thrusts well mirrored the follies of the Icelandic soul. Then to my attic to nibble on Liederkranz, after which L-, Q-, P-, Shorty, and a St. Bernard named Herman rushed in and fairly dragged me away. (Gad, but am I popular!) Off to a Lithuanian picnic and feasted on pine-smelling borsch and gemutlichkeit gefuilte fish. Sweet Lithuania, haven for the true liberal! Apple-cheeked maidens dancing the traditional sklav-sklav and reminding me of my Love. Later to the attic, whisked my tails from under the mattress...
...England's foremost cartoonist, Low has for some time had as his piece-de-resistance an elderly Englishman, ample of girth, in a Turkish bath setting, usually making some remark of a topical nature beginning with "Gad...