Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor got to work. The newspapers carried pictures of him wearing horn-rimmed glasses, posed busily at his desk. It was announced that on the first day of his return he got to the City Hall at 10:22 a. m., a record. Suddenly abandoning the role of wisecracking playboy for that of the diligent chief executive of the nation's largest city, Mayor Walker spoke gravely at a Board of Estimate meeting on "Saving the Taxpayer's Money." He said that he would need no Tammany lawyer to prepare his defense, that he would do it all by himself...
...Mayor James John Walker by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Rev. John Haynes Holmes of the City Affairs Committee. The Governor threatened, as chief magistrate of the state, to jail newshawks for contempt if they continued to pester him for a premature decision. With but one allusion to the playboy Mayor's "careless standards of public life," the City Affairs Committee complained that New York's chief executive had been remiss in administering the Departments of Standards & Appeals, Licenses. Health, Hospital, Budget, Docks, in all of which have been scandals or near-scandals during his regime...
...city investigation, begun last July, people began to wonder if it was Mayoring or fun-having that made a vacation seem imperative for the city's chief executive. Even his severest critics, however, could not place the entire responsibility for shortcomings in the city government on the playboy Mayor's slim shoulders. It was recalled that two years ago he said: "If reelected, I will take my advice and leadership from John F. Curry...
...voice by Commander Christopher Robin, who was sent to the Antarctic as a news stunt by Publisher Herbst. When the expedition's ship, the Lizzie Borden, got to the Panama Canal, she was towed through by a Mr. Burton, swimming all the way with frequent rests (a dig at Playboy Richard Halliburton). The expedition had to take along so much impedimenta (such as grand pianos) because of testimonials to manufacturers that no room was left for navigating instruments. So when their airplane landed at the Pole they found it was the wrong one. They decided to say nothing about...
...Playboy of Paris (Paramount). Maurice Chevalier works busily at this loose-jointed comedy which fulfills fairly adequately the purpose for which it was obviously devised?that of giving him moments for informal songs and for his characteristic attitudes. It tells about a waiter in a little Paris cafe who makes love to all the women customers and becomes the centre of much Gallic plotting when he inherits a million francs. One song, "It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken" has a chance of being a hit. For the rest, Playboy of Paris is notable chiefly...