Word: relaxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because Jean Muir knows better than most of her contemporaries how to indicate unrequited love without resorting to breast-expansion or weeping on an embroidered chaise longue. The picture's smart decor changes abruptly and briefly when, to prove that hard-working Lawyer Boles knows how to relax, an Easter scene at an orphan asylum is injected, wherein Boles, dressed in a magician's garb complete with plug hat, wig, barbershop mustache and false nose (see cut), does tricks for the inmates. Silliest sequence: Miss Muir being sent to jail for contempt when, quizzed by Boles...
...Ruggles of Red Gap look like a blacksmith. . . . One night I decided to find out just what kind of a fellow he was under his servant's mask. I gave him so many whiskeys and sodas that I got cockeyed drinking with him. He wouldn't sit down and relax, but just stood there tossing off the drinks without a change in his tone, manner or posture. Finally I said, 'For God's sake, can't you be human and talk for once like a human being?' And what do you suppose this guy said, without changing his dead...
With the war-scare headlines simmering down to more announcements of mild notes of protest by England to Germany and similar action in the offing by France and Italy, world citizenry can once more relax and review the situation calmly over the breakfast coffee. Hitler, with his usual flair for the dramatic, has timed the action to the minute and left the other countries gasping for wind...
Tonight being Friday the Vagabond plans to relax. Dinner in town and on to the wrestling at the Garden...
...luxe city and the de luxe spirit has prevailed with especial verve during the last two years. Life should be lived there with a fine gusto and grand disregard. Why haggle over the price of pie when money is such a trifling matter? Congressmen should learn to relax as the rest of us have. They should have another cup of coffee and another piece of pie and remember that only a Conservative would think in terms of nickels...