Word: humors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sniff at the inevitable camelias she caried at her breast, our brain snapped. The meaning of camelias, and flowers in general, and girls in particular, dawned. Three Cambridge florists have looked agog as we popped into their shops, smelled their specimens, and popped out again high in humor, proving our theory...
...chorus but itching John Rorke was responsible. The chance had been too good, the moment too irresistibly apt, for his British sense of humor. Within 30 seconds every telephone line into the modernistic, ship-shaped B. B. C. Building was jammed with the furious complaints of British radio listeners who had never before heard "Mrs. Simpson'' uttered on the air. The Duke of Windsor in his B. B. C. abdication broadcast called her simply "the woman I love." Almost instantaneously last week a B. B. C. technician had cut the broadcast, but just too late...
...have often worsted, and several gentlemen who, although the august Justices did not know it, might soon be their colleagues, notably Solicitor General Stanley Forman Reed and Lawyer Donald Randall Richberg. Few of the guests had suspected that there was any special reason for the President's good humor, that within three days he was to shake his guests of honor in their seats...
...profit of $4,284,000, compared to $3,175,000 in 1935. From bananas, ships and sugar United Fruit Co. made $14,176,000 last year as against $10,359,000 the year before. The white-uniformed salesmen who cry their wares from U. S. roadsides helped Good Humor Corp. increase its net income from $291,000 to $404,000. The Fuller Brush Man was apparently turned away from many a doorstep in 1936, for Fuller Brush Co. reported a dip in profits from $261,000 to $169,000. Radio Corp. reported earnings of about...
...masquerade by the doctor's brother's fiancee. To shield the two women, Heideneck invents a third, one Leopoldine Dur. There happens to be a real Leopoldine Dur (Paula Wessely), companion to an antique countess. The resulting farce is played with such subtle humor and skill that spectators are scarcely disturbed by the fact that all dialog is in German, necessitating brief English footnotes...