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...conscientious worker whereas Ora fancies himself as a poet. When they leave home, Myron is content to get an even more menial job at another hotel, but Ora drifts to Manhattan, his idea of Parnassus. Step by step, but with a fatherly eye more on priggish Myron than on piggish Ora, Author Lewis reports their slow, vicissitudinous careers. Ora finds the fleshpots of Greenwich Village agree with him. He writes one good but unsuccessful novel, the fruit of a brutally selfish love affair with a mulatto girl. Then he supports himself in uneven luxury by literary hackwork (including begging letters...
...Bowery (Twentieth Century). For his first production since leaving Warner Brothers last spring, Darryl Zanuck did what any smart producer might have tried but what very few could have carried off. From the sad look that comes into Wallace Beery's piggish eyes when he examines Jackie Cooper, to the sofa-pillow figure popularized by Mae West. Zanuck put in practically everything that cinema audiences have particularly patronized for the last two years. As a framework, he had Howard Estabrook and James Gleason fabricate a picaresque story about rival saloonkeepers on Manhattan's famed Bowery, just before...
...Dodge heirs for $146,000,000, the largest cash transaction in Wall Street history. In 1928, three years later, having operated Dodge at a profit of $40,000,000, the Dillon, Read Syndicate sold Dodge to Chrysler for the equivalent of $170,000,000 in Chrysler stocks. - ED. Piggish Kingfish Sirs: . . . TIME'S account of the Kingfish's washroom fiasco, not so clearly worded as most TIME articles, nevertheless left little room for doubt or imagination. It was both amusing and amazing to those of us who relied on newspapers for this information. No admirer of blatant Huey...
...ugly wife to sit at the same table with his practically naked mistress, it was too much. The Duchess would not; the Duke slapped her; she went to the Holy Roman Emperor and told on him. So Duke Heinrich found himself deposed. Then began a picaresque and piggish progress as the Duke and his rapscallion retinue sponged their way around Europe. The Duke failed notably to have himself made King of Poland. He failed to stir up Germany against the Holy Roman Empire. Though he made enough of an impression on the Counts Palatine and Conde to get on their...
There were 23 piggish pugs but no bloodhounds. Partly because so many bloodhounds have recently been poisoned, singly or in whole packs, breeders are afraid to show their dogs...