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...wenches' joy did not exceed that of the Rhineland menfolk. In Cologne the reaction of a dignified German burgher on his way by street car to a funeral in crape arm band and black stovepipe hat was significant. On hearing the glorious rumor, he swung off the street car and bustled toward Cathedral Square, where the first troops were expected to arrive, puffing: "The first soldier I get my hands on is going to get as cockeyed-drunk at my expense as I did when I was a soldier in 1914-and I'm going to get cockeyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Glorious Garrisons | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...Jane Austen's quiet, domestic observations was Sir Walter Scott, who declared: "I can do the big bowwow myself: but the exquisite touch ... is denied to me." Most 20th Century playgoers lean toward the big bowwow. Accordingly, they might reasonably be expected to yawn at characters whose menfolk's tights and neckwear make them look like bullfrogs about to spring, whose every silly sentence twists toward rarefied romance, and who employ three acts and much superfluous palaver in the basically simple process of going out and getting married. Nevertheless, all concerned in the dramatization do manage to supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1935 | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

Most women have been working outside of the home in the past few years, giving their menfolk more money for themselves. Now through the depression these women have been thrown out of work, so of course she is a parasite. The other type who has had a half a dozen children, doing housework, painting, paperhanging and all the jobs her husband should have been doing. Being tied down to a family does not include golfing, night life or pretty clothes. Johnnie or Lucy needs shoes or medicine. The man of today has an idea that a certain amount of money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 12, 1933 | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...whole truth of the matter is our menfolk have gotten into bad company. They want divorce and then remarry and then want the moon. The menfolk better wake up. I for one will teach my children to have no children. Just be selfish like their father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 12, 1933 | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...where the wife (Adrianne Allen) is absurdly jealous of her husband (Clive Brook); the Strawn household where middleaged. Kewpie-doll Mazie (Mary Boland) badgers her husband (Charles Ruggles) and her bibulous father-in-law (Charley Grapewin ); the Morrow household where a shrew runs the Temperance Union and cows her menfolk; and the Blake girls Ginger (Frances Dee), who loves young. Morrow, and Martha. When Mrs. Curry kills herself to make her husband sorry, the circumstances implicate the husband as murderer. When the witnesses come up, each discovers that he has something embarrassing to conceal. Several little harmless perjuries make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 26, 1932 | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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