Word: garterless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professionally, but only to very young scientists because all the older ones know it. Today, prankish Dr. Wood is a hale old man with a fine pink skin and clear blue eyes, who scorns an overcoat on the coldest days and goes about like a college boy, with garterless socks drooping over his shoes. He is full of years and honors, and more cognizant of the latter than of the former. But he was 70 last May, and Johns Hopkins requires retirement at that age. This year is his last as a regular member of the University faculty...
...Heel Delta Tau Deltas. Clayton Cash is an Illinois Delt; Ralph Hallenbeck, Princeton '35, is a Triangle Club man. Dorsey Forrest is a Northwestern Zeta Psi, Bruce Milligan is from Boston U, Phil Fent is a Cornhusker (Nebraska). Needless to say, all, including Hal, usually go bare-headed and garterless...
Advertising Manager Joseph M. Kraus is most concerned about garterless legs. But he also knows that hatters are troubled by more & more hatless heads, that clothing dealers are bothered by the growing tendency to leave off undershirts. Author of slogans like "No Metal Can Touch You" and "If You Wore Them Around Your Neck You'd Change Them More Frequently," he lately started a campaign to make men wear their full quota of clothes and accessories. Last week his campaign resulted in the creation of a body called the National Men's Apparel Commission to counterattack nudism...
Robert Williams was excellent as Stew Smith, the cynical and garterless reporter. He has a plentiful supply of amusing lines, and he handles these excellently. Loretta Young is capable as the girl pal sob sister, but the producers were rather unfortunate to cast her with Jean Harlow, for the contrast between the two shows all too clearly that Miss Harlow is a very poor actress and rather plain in comparison with Miss Young's almost classic beauty...