Word: jollyness
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¶News of the Archduke's assassination at Serajevo and the even more upsetting death of the proprietor break up a normally jolly evening in a Viennese brothel.
Mr. Babson came honestly by his combination of Yankee piety and Yankee shrewdness. Born in Gloucester, Mass. where his father was a merchant, Roger Babson has probably made more money out of statistics than anyone in the U. S. One of the chapters in his autobiography is headed, "$1,200...
Born in India (1865), where his father was director of the Bombay Art School, little Rudyard was sent "home" to be educated. For nearly six unhappy, browbeaten years of his childhood he boarded with the family of a retired naval officer. Every year he escaped for a month into the...
When You're in Love (Columbia). The ingenuity with which Hollywood scenarists arrange opportunities for the heroines of musical comedies to perform their function of singing is matched only by the lack of ingenuity with which they observe the tradition that all musical comedy heroines must be singers by...
THE BOYS IN THE BACK ROOM-Jules Romains-McBrlde ($2). Long-winded Novelist Romains takes time off from his big work-in-progress (Men of Good Will, TIME, July 13 et ante) to write this rather painfully jolly interlude about some bright young Parisian pals who loved to drink and...