Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Born in J. M. Synge's Arran Islands in 1896, Liam O'Flaherty has infused something of the Playboy into his career. Educated in a Jesuit College, as a youth he was intensely religious, scandalized his family by joining the Irish Guards to save Catholic Belgium. He was shell-shocked in the War; returned to Ireland for the Irish Revolution. Since then he has roamed over half the world chopping logs, working in restaurants, printshops. He was employed in a Hartford tire factory when he began to write his first short stories, invariably waste-paper-basketed when...
...glass doors which open on an airshaft for those which lead to the room where her inebriated guests are querulously listening to the barkings of a rolltop radio. The death of the villainess removes the last element of gaiety from the picture, permits Phillips Holmes, as a mustachioed playboy, and Miriam Hopkins, as a nice girl from the West, to obtain parental consent for matrimony. The involved train of events in Two Kinds of Women?adapted from Robert E. Sherwood's play This is New York?makes for comedy of a sort. One reason it fails to achieve...
Founder Elbert Green Hubbard was known in his day as the Hero of the Simple Life. Playboy, philosopher, publisher, poseur, he founded the Roycrofters in 1895 from an idea he picked up at William Morris' hand-made-book works in England. When he returned to the U. S. he was downcast by the shoddy vulgarity of the 1890's, developed his own creed of beauty & culture. Everyone, he believed, wanted to create something beautiful and useful with his hands. The Roycroft Shops gave anyone who went to East Aurora material with which to work...
...inclinations both headed him down Broadway. More & more he became legal mouthpiece to the under world (Arnold Rothstein, Nicky Arnstein), stage-door playboy (Gertrude Vanderbilt, Peggy Hopkins Joyce). A brilliant improviser, he defended his cases with very little preparation; but, when it was necessary he could digest four technical books on gynecology in one night. In court he was the perennial schoolboy who plagued the judge to win the jury. His carelessly superior air drove opposing lawyers wild. Defending a well-ankled blackmailer, he won her first trial by exposing as much of her legs as pos sible...
...Lenin is prankish Sir Oswald Mosley, rich playboy politico. Deserted by Oliver Baldwin and by his wife (Lady Cynthia Mosley M. P. excused herself from seeking re-election "on account of poor health"), Sir Oswald put-18-queer candidates, mostly athletes, in the field. His star candidate: "Kid" Lewis, whilom English middleweight champion, a pugilist of no political experience who will contest Whitechapel where he lives, is popular with the rabble...