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...races and a dancing class, gargling quiet wisecracks as he does so. The story, adapted from a play by George Ade called Father and the Boys, shows how a dyspeptic and chronically disgruntled businessman becomes revitalized in an effort to outdo his lively offspring. His sons suspect him of reckless conduct with a vivacious lady (Fifi Dorsay), suspect that his nose, withdrawn from the grindstone, will become tarnished by inebriation. Instead, his lively antics cause him to regain health and good spirits so thoroughly that he suggests a line for his own epitaph: "Died in his infancy...
French editors quite calmly asserted that Sir Robert Kindersley was in Paris to borrow money, and preached a little sermon to French voters blaming Great Britain's money troubles entirely on the "reckless spending" of the Labor Government. They hinted that this was what might happen to France if the Laval cabinet should fall and a government of the Left should take power...
...most of His Majesty's subjects. They hold the British Empire "greatest." Recently Scot Mac-Donald was called "traitor" by the precious-precocious son of Conservative Winston Churchill (TIME, Feb. 23). In Britain's coming electoral campaign Conservative candidates & professional patriots will roast J. R. M. for his generous, reckless major burble...
...forcing Thuringian school children to pray every morning for abolition of the Young Plan and the Treaty of Versailles-two Fascist platform planks. That Dr. Frick was forced out last week marked a Hitler defeat, but a defeat which should remove from public notice a Fascist so rabid and reckless as to be the worst advertisement his party...
Brave though everyone knows the Prince of Wales to be, the Argentine public has been watchful and excited these past few weeks about reports that before H. R. H. left Argentina he would go for a reckless, roaring spin in Miss England...