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Calendar Girl (Republic) is a rickety little' mutton-sleeved musical about a turn-of-the-century rooming house for artists. Typical characters: a fireman's daughter (Irish) whose father thinks ill of artists; a patrician two-timer (rich, from Boston) who retouches a portrait of her into fancy leg-art; a poet who sings like, and is played by, Kenny Baker; a straight man who writes songs and gets the girl. Typical comedy routine: a firemen's tug of war complicated by a banana peel and a sneeze. All this corn has a kind of innocence about...
...traditional scenes blossomed from coast to coast. In Boston it was suave, patrician Governor-elect Robert Fiske Bradford, who had walloped Democratic incumbent Maurice J. Tobin in a record off-year vote. As cameras clicked, Republican Bradford stepped up for the official accolade from his wife, to the evident de light of son Robert and daughter Rebecca...
Along the twisting horse-&-buggy roads through London's suburbs, sleek patrician Bentleys elbowed war-weary jalopies aside oh the way to the track. Charabancs full of cheering trippers from Clapham Common and Edgeware overtook lumbering six-horsed coaches complete with liveried postilions and grey-toppered gentry...
...till then Unilever's U.S. subsidiary had been largely the creation of President Francis A. Countway, an elegant patrician who sometimes seemed more like a Renaissance prince than what many people called him: "the greatest advertising man in the U.S." Lifebuoy soap was introduced from England in 1898, but it was Countway who, after a golf game one hot afternoon, invented B.O. to go with it. He had presided over the debuts of Lux Toilet Soap, Rinso, Swan and Spry. He had earned his huge salary (in 1939, $469,000, highest in the U.S. outside Hollywood) by boosting Lever...
...greatest U.S. fiction ever penned; so Mark, to whom nothing American was alien, was bound to catch the fever. "An inventor is a poet-a true poet!" he cried, when his brother, Orion Clemens, invented a "modest little drilling machine." "To invent. . . shows the presence of the patrician blood of intellect-that 'round & top of sovereignty' which separates its possessor from the common multitude & marks him as one not beholden to the caprices of politics but endowed with greatness in his own right...