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...escape from the woman's prison is perhaps the most remarkable accomplishment in the whole picture. It takes place during a scream-jag riot fomented by a rat released from its cage, which is a device we should not have thought of ourselves. Instead of jumping into the ocean, as most escape heroines do, Jean Harlow crawls with her two companions through a drainage pipe. And when one of them is shot by a guard, she does not murmur with her last breath, "Good luck, Jean." "Riffraff" is worthy of the highest compliment a critic can give...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

Stimulating an emotional jag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lessons | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...like are forced off the other; but carpers must remember that a greater good will be served. Who knows, the nation may laugh itself out of the depression, despite a few fatalities among the more weakly constituted who are unable to stand the strain of an eight-hour laughing jag each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE OF MIRTH | 3/7/1935 | See Source »

...President is subscribing to "recovery before reform," it does at least indicate that he may put recovery before relief. All in all, there is a strong presumption in favor of the belief that the National Industrial Recovery Board is but a means of tapering off after the Johnsonian jag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 9/29/1934 | See Source »

Myra, if I have a jag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Poll | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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