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Fast and Loose (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) might be described as one of The Thin Man's wilder oats. Needle-nosing after a purloined Shakespeare manuscript, a personable book expert (Robert Montgomery) and his comely helpmeet (Rosalind Russell) run across three murders...
...asked for a helpmeet who would understand me. He came and was young enough to be as inexperienced in the fundamentals of mating as Old Maid Janis was at 42. Result: Four years of two being one completely, and now an understanding of what is what. He is young enough to make a new life for himself, if orders are such...
...task is hard enough; petty minutiae, the uncomprehending objections of the people he would serve, contrive to annoy him; yet a little praise from those people, though it may be slow in coming, can sweeten the bitterness of a thousand quibbling opponents. For the woman who is a conscientious helpmeet, however, there are innumerable trails and duties without the prospect of direct self-satisfaction; the pleasure of success can be for her at best only a reflected glow, while the darts of the fault-finders penetrate her as deeply as they do her husband...
...life of Anna Parker Lowell proved that "helpmeet" is still a word with all the strength of its Biblical origin, and no mere ornamental epithet. When Mr. Lowell became President of Harvard, she entered at once into the life of this most complex of universities. She occupied herself with its social affairs, was helpful in the work of the Harvard Dames, and welcomed students with cordial informality to the Sunday afternoon receptions. But more than the graces of the temporary hostess were hers: she made the President's House a center of hospitality throughout the year for the University...
...small inheritance) while his brother Jonathan worked his way through the local medical school. Both brothers loved elfin yet extremely modern Edie-Harold blithely, Jonathan desperately. Came the War with a smart uniform for Harold, a curt injunction that Jonathan continue as invaluable village doctor. His constant helpmeet was Rachel, dark-eyed beauty, but he kept reminding himself that calm brunettes were not his type -too unlike Edie. These contemplations were rudely interrupted by Harold reported killed and Edie marrying disillusioned "brother Jonathan," that she might honorably bear Harold's child. Harold's unexpected reappearance so confuses...