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...Mack's prescription for thumb-suckers over 3½: the nonremovable "hay rake" (see cut), cemented to the child's teeth. This, he concedes, "has the double misfortune of looking vicious and being called by [a] distasteful name." But it has the double virtue, he argues, of keeping the thumb out and the tongue back. (Many children, denied the joy of thumbsucking, seek solace in pushing the tongue against the front teeth.) The hay rake, says Dr. Mack, is always successful within a few months, and most young patients bear no grudge against the man who installs...
Actress Blanchar, young (19), pretty and completely charming, is perfectly cast as a fluttery court neophyte, aglow with soulful love for Rudolph. Actor Marais, playing the moody, princely rake, sizes her up as a pushover, deigns to use her for passing pleasure. They learn each other's true motives in an intimate sequence brimming with Gallic candor and style, and as they manage to reconcile their conflicting emotions, their scenes blossom into a gauzy mood of idyllic romance...
...their more serious preceptors, these three hundred years. They have committed every sort of folly and extravagance. New colleges such as Amherst and Williams have been founded in order to provide a place where poor but pious youths could be educated for the ministry, uncontaminated by the 'rake-hells,' 'bloods,' and 'sports' of Harvard...
...Buck Rake...
...Obre-ros Estivadores de Filipinas (U.O.E.F.) and certain employers and politicians who played ball with U.O.E.F. The union capataces (work-gang leaders) collected money from the shippers, paid off the workers themselves. In the days when there were as many as 25 ships in the harbor, the capataces' rake-off amounted to $25,000 a week...