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...Love Piker. We don't know quite which is more tiresome? watching one of the 57 Hollywood varieties of "daughters'' go straight to the Nether Octopus of Shame, via the bathing-revel and flask-party route or seeing one of them won away from rouge, the Ritz and high-hattiness in general by kittens, tame canaries, rural atmosphere and the sight of a pair of baby-rompers. But The Love Piker temporarily swings the weight of ennui in the latter direction. Hope Warner (Anita Stewart) was a frightful snob. She broke the speed laws, owned a Pekinese, and when rescued...
...there's the problem, too, for what of Babbitt, Moon Calf, Eric Dorn? Who can enjoy the mirrors of his mediocrity? Who can revel in the garbage of his prurience ? It is human nature, moralists to the contrary, to enjoy a good s duction with Tom Jones or Roderick Random. It is human nature to picture yourself a glorious Ivanhoe or a clever Pendennis. It is not human nature to imagine yourself a nobody Babbitt doing any no-account and nasty business in any Middle Western babbitt warren. There is no vanity in futility and filth...
...street" has a lackadaisical habit of lumping with the American Federation of Labor, socialists, "Reds", anarchists, and hoodlums who make high revel with brickbats. Of this view, so widely held, Mr. Woll's article, which appears in this issue, is a complete refutation. With clarity and vigor he has pointed out that the A. F. L. is not a helpless ward of the state but a buxom, independent part of it, not an enemy but a supporter of the present capitalistic order, not a body with untested theories but one with policies matured out of experience. He has wasted...
...Fool Your Wife. A banal triangle-story of "fashionable society" produced in the usual deluxe, ooze-leather edition way. The chief characters rejoice in enormous stucco palaces-there is a pervasive flavor of butlers, Rolls-Royces and The Book of Etiquette about it all. A bathing revel occurs at Miami in which all the guests have taken the wise precaution of substituting swimming gear for the more usual undies. The subtitles suit the picture-they are, most of them, of the "When came the dawnlight" school...
...recent convention in Seattle, voted that any man who could show his little red card to a freight train employe should be given a free ride. And the hobos, as such, held high revel not long ago in a well known New York hotel with tomato soup for punch and Irish stew for supper. Remarkable transformation! Fifty years ago the unemployed could do nothing but die quick deaths in the "workus". Now they go abroad in private cars and high-powered automobiles, and dine as guests of the government...