Word: nosey
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...puzzle rather than a nightmare, are therefore attributable to a skillful adaptation by Niven Busch of Mary Roberts Rinehart's story. Comic relief in mystery stories is so easy to do that it is seldom done as satisfactorily as when a policeman herein finds fault with a nosey reporter. "I'm the Morning Eagle," says the reporter. "Go feather your nest," the policeman says, and throws him off the porch. Joan Blondell's round eyes give her, the astonished appearance proper to a female detective. George Brent, an actor currently being groomed as a competitor to Clark...
When, momentarily escaping his oppressive public, he pays a late call on his fianceée (Mary Brian), a tabloid reporter informs him that the call is capable of turning into scandal. Even when married, Scotty Boy has a hard time. He abuses a nosey reporter and has to go on a good-will tour to make up for it. He has a misunderstanding with his wife when she is tricked into signing a cheap article about him. At the end of the picture there is a letdown, as though the authors (Mary McCall Jr. and Robert Lord) did not know...
...Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's New York Evening Graphic, a pink tabloid devoted to its owner's cult of things physical published an epithalamic editorial, based upon pure assumption, dealing with a subject into which not even the most nosey newspapers are accustomed to intrude. Under the heading "When Athletes Marry," the Graphic publicly discussed Mrs. Moody and her husband as follows...
...London show an official of the British Broadcasting Company tut-tutted over the troubles of George V, with radio interference and promised His Majesty perfect reception with a new type of set. Meanwhile Queen Mary had strolled off to a booth where "Nosey Parkers" were for sale. When an attendant donned one of those clever rubber masks and blew up the nose to a grotesque, bulbous protuberance, Her Majesty reached for her purse. Perhaps she bought the "Nosey Parker'' to entertain her small and only granddaughter, "Baby Betty," 22 months old, daughter of the Duke & Duchess of York...
...makes every one miserable with maliciously romantic theories. At last convention conquers and Denham is condemned to housekeeping in metroland (suburbs). All of which is told by caustic Miss Macaulay more bluntly than ever, as befits the primitive heroine. Literary Lon don is the prize ox gored, but all nosey, worrying, oversocialized gibble-gabblers everywhere are told...