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...section hand. . . . You are above the common herd, although you don't get paid for it. . . . This is a struggle between the wage earners and the dividend collectors. . . . 'I say you have to become militant. . . . You have a great chance to do something famous, so do not muff the ball by getting on too high a plane. As long as the boys downstairs are running the presses you still have a newspaper, so don't get too much above them...
...sizzling dynamite in the Stavisky scandal was temporarily quenched by referring the entire matter to an investigating committee of 44 Deputies, a group unwieldy enough almost certainly to muff the investigation. In Paris and the provinces workmen hurried to replace broken pillars, smashed street lights, shop windows, fire hydrants-every trace of last fortnight's bloody riots. The Cabinet did its best to give taxpayers something else to think about. A snarling tariff war with Britain got under way (see p. 13). Foreign Minister Louis Barthou sent a blunt answer to Germany's latest demand for rearmament...
Nana falls in love with a feverish young lieutenant named Muff at (Phillips Holmes), whose older brother (Lionel Atwill), a pompous colonel, considers her a "gilded fly." But after he has sent his young brother to Algiers to cool off, Colonel Muffat starts pawing Nana for himself. By the time Lieutenant Muffat returns to Paris, the Franco-Prussian War has started, Nana has become a tosspot and Colonel Muffat has left his home to live with her. The brothers meet in the hall of Nana's house. They start to draw their swords. But since the point...
...eighties", racquet posed delicately behind the neck, feet swathed in high heeled boots, dress distended by the bustle, or as Mr. Allen quotes, "by a kind of ambulatory showcase, or exhibition grounds,"--for such was the female style. There is a camera portrait of Mrs. August Belmont hugging her muff in the midst of a fake snowstorm. There are faro games, and the Klondike, Fanny Ward in "Pippino" and Maude Adams in "Rosemary". The drawing rooms of the Vanderbilts and the Astors vie in roccoco obscenity. Valeska Surrat displays the hour-glass silhouette which won her recognition as the Gibson...
...feathers whisk out of the lowering sky, plop softly on the Manhattan's sun deck. Soprano Mario, striding briskly, stumbled over it. Mrs. Garson hurried up, agreed that it looked like a mop. To Vibrato it looked like a warm hideaway. He hopped out of his mistress' muff, tried to bury himself in its folds. Only then did the two women discover that the "mop" was an exhausted...