Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naughty Baby (First National). It would have taken an actress to make convincing this scenario about a check-girl who pretends to be a debutante from Boston to win the love of a young man who pretends to be a millionaire. Alice White is not an actress. Alice White is a size-fourteen girl who looks like Clara Bow, but cuter; all eyes and no chin. She loses her bathing suit; she rides a horse for the first time; the rest is pretty stupid...
...indignant young man and a genial, flabby-handed oldster conferred, last week in the Prime Minister's Room of the House of Commons, without witnesses, without prior notice to the press. Edward of Wales told Stanley Baldwin about his recent tour of the North English coal fields, described scenes of bitter misery and awful squalor which had caused H. R. H. to exclaim (TIME, Feb. 11): "This is ghastly! I never thought things were so bad!" "A ghastly mess. . . ." Presumably the heir to the throne used equally strong language, last week, to the Prime Minister. What would Stanley Baldwin...
Individualism:"There are various kinds and degrees of individuality in dress. The term may be applied where a man selects a style of costume which has long since gone out of fashion. It may be used where another cultivates the grotesque in garb...
...Could you hide me on your ship?" asks the most famous man in the world, a little incredulously...
...hundred thousand persons at the lowest count turned out last week, in Mexico City, to follow the hearse of a young man whose sole distinction is that he assassinated Mexico's President-Elect General Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...