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...Bill Pettigrew (James Stewart) is stationed at Camp Merritt, near New York City. One evening he collides with a limousine containing glamorous Daisy Heath (Margaret Sullavan). Unaware of the nature of her attachment to her manager (Walter Pidgeon), Private Pettigrew falls in love. Aware of the effect of a rude disillusionment, Daisy makes a brave gesture that enables Private Pettigrew to sail for France with his sublimated devotion unimpaired...
...David Walsh to leave the civil service administration under a three-man commission. It was defeated, but by such a narrow margin-50-to-38-that Floor Leader Alben Barkley promptly betrayed the fact that his alarm outweighed his satisfaction by leaving himself appallingly wide open to a rude jibe from Idaho's Borah. To Mr. Borah's suggestion that the President favored shifting the Forest Service from the Agriculture to the Interior Department, perturbed Leader Barkley indignantly cried...
...autobiographical. Embarrassed critics, who had hailed the work as "pure music," complained that he was holding out on them. Wailed crotchety Britisher Ernest Newman: "With each new work of Strauss there is the same tomfoolery-one can use no milder word to describe proceedings that no doubt have a rude kind of German humor, but that strike other people as more than a trifle silly...
...unlike Babbitt, Fred Cornplow is harassed by two extraordinarily rude, extravagant, self-centred children who almost drive him crazy and then try to lock him in a sanitarium so he can recover the mental balance they have destroyed. Son Howard is a handsome, stupid, unprincipled college boy who is always borrowing money, wrecking his father's cars, and trying to lie his way out. Daughter Sara is a handsome, ill-natured poseur who becomes a Communist, falls in love with an agitator, overdraws her allowance of $1,000 a year and spends most of her time making poisonous remarks...
...Stalin has ever produced and Field's employes have found their jobs both less serene and less secure. Last week, however, it appeared that the quiet days of yore have returned. For after the sudden death of Chairman McKinsey, Marshall Field directors decided not to appoint another rude outsider as chairman but to return to the time when the company was run by a man who "knew how to wrap a package...