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...typing, and kept her feet from straying. Her peers thought her strangely proud, for "common things like holding hands with strange young men at the cinema were not for her." She struck up a culturally useful friendship with a fellow-boarder, a crippled youth who was no less prim of speech than she, but she guarded her virginal beauty for a vague another. More by good luck than good management she escaped the snares laid by a wily woman-hunter and the cruder advances of a loathsome dope-peddler. Fittingly established at last as private secretary to a rich lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Success in Skirts | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

...Ladies Aid Society and there the talk boiled up hottest. Gentle, white-haired Rector Livingston heard about it, of course, but he had been a pastor too long to pay much attention to the chatter of womenfolk. Besides, he had plenty of stanch supporters, and he loved his prim, 205-year-old Caroline Episcopal Church, with the mark of British bullets on its belfry. That was how it began, but it ended last week in court. Rector Livingston, 70, was suing Miss Smith, 71, for $50,000, charging slander. He had begun paying attention when he heard that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 6t Talk | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

Near Klagenfurt, Austria. Peter Sussbauer blared his horn at a prim black cat mincing across the road in front of his car. The cat swelled its tail, arched its back, crouched, hissed, sprang from ground to running board, to door, to steering wheel, to Peter Sussbauer. Badly scratched and bitten around the neck, Motorist Sussbauer was hospitalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 18, 1934 | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...York, April 30-Max Bear, the Casanova of clout, returned to New York's from California today an announced in stentorian tones that on the night of June 14th he will, by virtue of knocking Prim Carnera loose from his mornings, become world heavyweight champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOMESTIC | 5/1/1934 | See Source »

...element that creeps into Hollywoodiana) and he immediately falls for the babe at his side. Letty is the girl's name, and she lets him know that she is avoiding Legs, a New York gangster. Legs glares at the couple, and Withington (Ted Healy) is trying to persuade a prim woman to take a drink, and Healey's stooges, the Julians, are raising hell in the back of the bus, and character actors fill the remaining seats. The bus is stopped by troopers. At the stops the passengers are carefully scrutinized by policemen searching for Porter who had ingeniously disguised...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/15/1934 | See Source »

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