Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes-From Ritz to Ritz with a wide-eyed gabber...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It is a very wise crack that gets two laughs for its parent. Nevertheless, enjoyment of this long-awaited moronese farce by Anita Loos and John Emerson is not totally dependent upon one's not having read the Loos novel. As for the uninitiated, their cup of joy is full...
...nature, offers a perfect performance as the cooing, wide-eyed, traveling siren, Lorelei Lee. Edna Hibbard's saucy nose, jaunty figure and coon-shouting voice add immensely to the personality of Lorelei's hard-boiled girlfriend, Dorothy, upon whose caustic nature has been fathered the echo: "Brunettes prefer gentlemen...
...work and a letter-the original of which is possessed by the U. S. State Department-to a Man with "a violent natural inclination" which no medicine will diminish, and with an aversion to Matrimony, a Man who persists in thinking Commerce with the Sex inevitable-advising him to prefer old Women to young ones in his Amours for seven cogent, ingenious reasons and one technical reason. This letter is signed by Benjamin Franklin...
...make of their subjects a framework for their philosophy. A philosophy of life must be the aim of Education, and whether it result in a religious or a humanistic philosophy is of little concern to the essayist, though one may suspect from his strong classical bent that he would prefer the latter result...