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...abomination, that they will best serve themselves and their mother by eschewing men. working hard, saving their money so that they can all go to Hollywood one day and be rich and famed. Daughter Violet, after smashing one man with a water bottle, goes off with a fisherman. Plump Daughter Clarice, starving to be a tap dancer, succumbs naturally to a German carpenter and a mess of pork chops. And only after a sailor has left her with a baby does Daughter Ruby peek into her parents' bedroom, find that her mother was fooling all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 9, 1935 | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

Berlin's Mayors, like New York's, have frequently been in hot water. That passionate pinochle player, plump little Mayor Gustav Boess. for example, was ignominiously hauled back from a junket to the U. S. six years ago when it was discovered that his wife had accepted an expensive fur coat from some outfitters who got city contracts for hospital uniforms (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Long Heinrich | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...Farley's hopes last week of carrying his home State (see col. 2), but higher still were his hopes of carrying his home district. In Haverstraw only fortnight ago he had opened a shiny new $65,000 post office. In Haverstraw last week his own flesh & blood, plump Tom Farley, was running for County Supervisor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Perfectly Awful! | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...Kansas City, Mo. plump, blue-eyed Mrs. Lottie Crumley, 34, confessed to police a plan to: 1) marry an ailing pool room attendant; 2) insure him for at least $1,000; 3) kill him in a fake hold-up or automobile accident; 4) collect the insurance and pay a gunman to kill the wife of a street car motorman and; 5) marry the motorman. "I am in love with the motorman," she concluded, "and he promised to marry me." Said the motorman: "She was a pest who was riding in my car at every opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Widow | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

Married. Kathryn Schrafft, plump opera-singing daughter of the late Candy Tycoon George F. Schrafft; and Sir Peter Norton-Griffiths, handsome London barrister; in Newton, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 28, 1935 | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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