Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposed to be proof against every fault of piloting. Builders of the ship may well have wondered in idle moments, How serious will be the first accident to ''crash'' U. S. headlines? Who will be the pilot? A foolish stunt flyer descending into a busy street? A drunken playboy flying into the side of a skyscraper? A witless novice slamming the controls this way and that? Last week the builders knew the answers. The accident, at Abilene, Tex., was not serious. But, unfortunately for the 'giro, its story was carried to the front page of practically every newspaper...
...girls wrangled for the attentions of a young business man who, though he succumbed in turn to both, never seemed much interested in either one-was a trifle of the type which Hollywood now turns out in case-lots. When repulsing the advances of a suave but likeable playboy who employs her as his private secretary (a scene which serves as the hallmark of office romance in the cinema) Actress Cummings manages better than a majority of the other actresses who have been involved in the same formula to make gaiety of manner suggest the desirable combination of virtue...
Arthur Sinclair should get a great deal of fun out of the part of spry Old Man Murphy, shouting insults at other actors in a rich brogue, taking his coat half off to fight imaginary enemies, leaping on chairs to deliver political orations. His gross cartoon of an aged playboy of the western world comes off admirably, although the walls of Dublin's hallowed Abbey Theatre, where Mr. Sinclair used to perform mystic Synge dramas and nationalistic plays with the Irish Players, probably trembled when he accepted this role in rough-&-tumble farce...
...Jimmy") Walker urged by the City Affairs Committee (TIME, May 4 et ante). The move was expected by most observers in view of the impending investigation of the entire municipal administration by a legislative committee under Referee Seabury (TIME, April 6). Tammany wanted a more ornamental exoneration of the playboy Mayor than it found in the Governor's bare announcement: "The present charges were so general in character and related so predominantly to the acts of subordinates in the City Government that I hesitated as to whether I should take any action on them...
...most interesting portion of the 20,000 words was the Mayor's excoriation of his accusers. Although the City Affairs Committee had scrupulously avoided mention of the playboy Mayor's private life, the Mayor applied to Rabbi Wise a set of epithets first used by the late Mayor William J. Gaynor: "All-sufficient, insufficient, self-sufficient Rabbi Wise, who thinks he is pious but is only bilious; a man of vast and varied misinformation and of prodigious moral requirements." Rev. John Haynes Holmes, co-signer of the charges, was described as "for years a leader in a group...