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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough for a five-line gag in a vaudeville act, and strings it out somehow into a really funny feature. The three people in the gag are a man-about-town, his lawyer and his lawyer's wife. Every woman, says the man-about-town, wants to be kissed. The lawyer says his wife is an exception. To prove his point the man-about-town bets $10,000 he can kiss the next woman who comes out on the veranda. Edmund Lowe, Jeanette MacDonold and Roland Young are the principals. Best part: Una Merkel as an insufferable Girl from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 16, 1931 | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...Queen: ''The second time Andy was in there, he said to me, he said: 'Sweetheart, this is one of the best manicures I ever had.' . . . One night we had a date, and we was sittin' on the sofa, and he sez to me: 'Kiss me, honey,' and I say: 'You go 'way from here 'cause I ain't gonna kiss no man.' ... He got down on one knee and begged me to marry him. That's exactly what he done. . . . Then after I said I would marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...liquor. He refused it, took a gulp of coffee. The Spaniards kept him jailed for a month. Then Spanish-American fighting ended. Captain Hobson, 28, "handsome, tall and moral," returned to the U. S. a Hero, some four years be fore a later Hero (Lindbergh) was born. Girls kissed Hero Hobson in cities from one end of the country to the other. Candy makers produced the "Hobson Kiss," a block of chewy confection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dope | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...least once. '"Everything" was apparently contained in Manhattan and Harlem. Terry and Ruth took a Manhattan apartment, bought a Coffee Pot restaurant, worked in the daytime, in the evening plunged into dive after dive. Ruth kept getting Terry into trouble because she would insist on letting men kiss her or going places she had no business to go. But Terry invariably emerged triumphant from the fracas, dragging her with him. Eventually the shoddy wild life palled. Ruth and Terry discovered they loved each other, sold the Coffee Pot and took a train to Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hard Babies | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...keep her well from the marriage hour to the funeral bell? Cherish her well, in sickness or health, to share in poverty or in wealth? Walk the floor when the baby comes? Buy it rattles, bottles, drums? Love her well enough for this? Take the lady with a kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 29, 1930 | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

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