Word: isn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hates to dun Speed. Speed is his friend, his good old boy friend, perhaps his fraternity brother. The thing goes on. Perhaps Speed never pays him back. Ten dollars isn't much, but it's the principle of the thing. And sometimes these informal loans involve real principal. Then Speed and Joe, once good friends, reach a snarling estrangement. One calls the other "tightwad," "usurer"; is himself called "dead beat," "sponger," "crook," "bummer...
...rest of the show, big and large, isn't up to the standard set two years ago. "Flirting" and "Reporting" are the only lyrics we happened to remember, and by this time we're way off key on both of them. In so far as the plot seeks to burlesque the matrimonial difficulties of one Nooky, a newspaper reporter, it is reasonably clever, just reasonably. There was always the distinct impression that Mr. Grossman and Mr. Morgan were putting a lot more into their lines than was actually intended, Mr. Crosby, as far as we could see, made the part...
...Hartley Manners, who opposed her. Mrs Broun said: "When you are a girl of 21 or maybe 30 and get married, your past life flashes behind you as you are pronounced Mrs. So-and-So and you realize that you are 'Miss' no more. And this isn't legal, for the law says that you can keep your born name if you want...
Although the two Chaplins, Syd and Charlie, are reported to be brothers on reasonably good authority, we have never attached much importance to that classification. It isn't a matter of looking up the records, for somebody else would surely have done it if we hadn't. But the mention of their relationship comes more by way of a passing observation than a significant thought, for the Chaplins have no connection whatsoever in the land of motion pictures, which is, after all, what we are dealing with...
...hitting the Senators present. Senator McKinley for some time has been preaching what I'm preaching, and I think Senator Deneen is going to do it. If he isn't, he isn't going back to the Senate from this state...