Word: going
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maybe it's just sour grapes, but go ahead, I like...
...rain), a picture of a blonde undressing and directions to find page 2. Pages 2 and 3 are mostly margin, "so that NO one can read OVER YOUR SHOULDER!" Page 4 is a set of false whiskers, page 5 a peepshow. Other features: a two-way editorial ("Can this go on? Sure! No!"), a page of letters to readers ("instead of printing letters from readers who tell us how lousy our magazine is"). The back cover, an "acquaintance maker," says: "Yoo hoo! How's about a date tonight? (All you have to do is take a seat opposite...
Lewis Williams Douglas will not be 45 until next month, but he has already gone far in three careers: business, politics and pedagogy. He quit teaching history at Amherst in 1920 to go back to his native Arizona and follow his grandfather and father into the mining business. But Lew Douglas felt he had a mission in life. He got into politics and served three terms in the House (where he made a reputation for understanding Government finance) before President Roosevelt made him Director of the Budget in 1933. Hard-headed Lewis Douglas washed his hands of the budget when...
...Chicago a suit for separate maintenance disclosed a share-the-husband scheme which had worked temporarily. Introduced as evidence was a letter from Wife Mary Petersen to the other woman, Mrs. Caroline Bertram: "My husband is going to be home on his birthday. . . . If you want to come for coffee and cake it is all right with me. But remember, you are not playing fair with me when you keep him the nights he is supposed to be home. . . . Last night was my night and I was supposed to go with him to cash his check and shop. You took...
...Pettyjohn (she names no real names), a socialite banker, was agreeable despite the fact that he tested his servants by scattering cigar ashes in out-of-the-way spots. Mrs. Lowell was kind, looked after the Goritzins in illness, raised their wages to $200 a month, reluctantly let them go when she moved into a house that was too big for them to manage. The rest of Service Entrance is a chronicle-somewhat humorless, written in upstairs rather than backstairs English-of abuse, exploitation, wretched servants' quarters, meals on leftovers, petty impositions, large-scale cheating. (Young Mr. Carter...