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...home Youth Pravda's point a long letter was printed from a young rubber factory worker. Comrade Surkov: "For three years I have been aware of a strong desire to dress better. Perhaps it's because I want to get married or maybe just because I am jealous of my comrades. Be that as it may, I dreamt of having a stylish overcoat with a wide belt...
...choose a new general salesmanager. Slick Adolphe Menjou wants the job. So does paunchy Guy Kibbee. But both of them get into trouble. Salesman Kibbee paws at a wench (Joan Blondell) who maneuvers him into the first stage of the badger game. Salesman Menjou is discredited when a jealous saleswoman (Mary Astor) interferes with his attentions to President Honeywell's daughter. The salesmanager-ship finally goes as a bribe to a maudlin inebriate who has caught President Honeywell about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator...
...banquet had been tendered by massive President Dr. Gabriel Terra of Uruguay to Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the nine other foreign ministers of American countries at the Conference. To seat the 200 statesman-guests, each jealous of his rank, was the ticklish job of Senor Carlos de Yeregui, mincing-mannered Uruguayan Chef de Protocols. In plenty of time before the banquet Senor Yeregui called his limousine, set out from his office with the 200 precious place cards and the indispensable seating list. Chuckling, Montevideo's merry Communists stopped Senor Yeregui's car, forced his chauffeur...
Under Point 16 every Hungarian girl would be compelled to put on at 12 years of age the sort of iron girdle which jealous Hungarian knights used to lock around their ladies before riding off to the Crusades. In this 20th Century, proposed the Awakened Magyars, "The key to each girl's girdle is to be kept by her father or other competent authority until her marriage contract is signed, when it is to be delivered to the husband...
...divorce courts, and it's far more respectable." On his latest visit to Manhattan (last winter) he gave reporters a lively half-hour, said something new about Manhattan's skyline: "Keyserling says you have not mastered nature, but I think you've made the Rocky Mountains jealous...