Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscription would shortly expire have been received. I am well aware of this expiration and assure you that I enjoy reading your publication, but regret that certain conditions prohibit me from renewing my subscription at present. As my address shows I am living at an hotel where the help are very careless with mail. I have failed to receive quite a number of copies of TIME and have gone to the office several times to get my mail and found transient guests, lounge lizards, and lobby loiterers reading my paper, which they had helped themselves...
Commander de Pinedo could scarcely help gritting his teeth at the young matchflicker who had undone him, but he detected no anti-Fascist plot. Not so the Roman press. There, where Fascist de Pinedo is regarded as a fit first mate for Christopher Columbus, headlines snarled: "VILE CRIME AGAINST FASCISM," "ODIOUS ACT OF ANTI-FASCISTS." A villain was even named by name, one Vacirca, an exile. Proudly piped Il Piccolo: "STRONG WILL OF MUSSOLINI WILL CONTINUE FLIGHT." Commander de Pinedo proceeded to Los Angeles (and doubtless to Hollywood), to wait...
...Talks. When the play was presented, Jacques Lerner amazed audiences by simulating the monkey who talks. In the film he looks even more beastlike. Yet the love sequence for that very reason seems more unlikely. As a man, he loves the heroine. As a chimpanzee, a disguise assumed to help a friend, he appears in circus sideshows. Under these circumstances it is no easy matter to woo a sensitive girl not wise in anthropology. Yet it is done successfully with melodramatic incident...
...wife did not help him write his book. She is the daughter of the late John Charles Rowe of Buffalo. Said he: "She thought that my epigrams were certainly original." The book's title is Tittle-Tattle...
...that May Sinclair handles her story well, although at times the feeling is inevitable that six brain children are too large a brood for any author to handle. The plot usually well-sustained, at points of maximum action strays, wobbles, stumbles. Of the characters, categorical differentiations are employed to help the reader tell one from the other, but the net effect is of a houseful of wooden Indians worked by wires. Not since Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922) has May Sinclair been herself...