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...trying. Willie Baxter's puppy passion for Lola Pratt, the Baby Talk Lady, who is "almost a divorced woman," and his adolescent antics are as funny today as when they were written. High spots are still Willie's drastic expedients to get pocket money to woo heartless, flirtatious Lola in style, his stratagems to purloin his father's dress suit, his difficulties with a used-car shark, his running feud with his snoopy, roller-skating little sister (Norma Nelson), his desperate moon-calfing and the beginnings of wisdom. Just as important to the meaning of Seventeen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...shouldn't there be a political attack on an administration as heartless as his?" snorted Secretary Ickes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Heartless | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...culmination of years of effort by scientists and research men to help those unfortunate individuals who shave every morning, and then find that at five o'clock they are right back where they were in the morning. And yet what would you have them do? You, you heartless and unforeseeing fiends, would have them look at the radio section to make sure that they don't disturb your programs. this is of course only the beginning of your program ... Let me assure you ... that we "electric shavers" shall fight you tooth and nail if you try to carry this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...plays are allegorical in form and emotional in appeal. Their very simplicity is a stage asset, has the strength of black against white. Carroll is not yet really important, but he is Irish: he has rich-juiced dialogue, abundant humor, powerful characterizations. Mellow, charming Canon Lavelle and frigid, heartless Father Shaughnessy possibly provide too pat a contrast. But both are brilliant stage characters, inspire the belief that Carroll will some day achieve an even greater creation-mere human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Victims of the carefully planned, hoax of a heartless practical joker, a large number of Business School students spent some very uncomfortable hours yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOAXER SENDS FRIGHTENED BUSINESS STUDENTS TO DEAN | 2/26/1938 | See Source »

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