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...farce in which Chester Morris, as a scatter-brained aviator, jokes with, flies with, drinks with, wrestles with and finally suggests matrimony with Billie Dove, as a Parisian actress, whose costume armor is heard clanking to the floor at the end of the picture. Typical shot: Chester Morris squirting seltzer at Billie Dove when she slaps him for an improper proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 1, 1932 | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...best. So it is with great pleasure that he goes today at 12 to Emerson D to hear Professor Lowes talk on Wordsworth, the precursor of the Romanticists. Wordsworth himself, the Vagabond firmly believes, only wrote five poems that can be read without the aid of a bromo-seltzer, but he was the primary influence in one of the greatest literary periods the modern world has ever known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...establishments, the Apollo and Pompeii, were undisturbed. Managers, customers, girls and waiters went out to battle. Beer bottles crashed through the windows. Heavy saucers hummed through the air. An Andalusian blonde was felled by one on her ear. One of the attacking Amazons had her hip gashed by a seltzer bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Syndicato v. Telefonica | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

Died. Capt. Isaac Edward Emerson, 71, drug manufacturer, president and board chairman of Emerson's Bromo-Seltzer Inc. (a company controlling Citro Chemical Co. of America, Maryland Glass Corp., and Emerson Drug Co.), hotel and realty owner; of heart disease; in Baltimore. Col. Emerson was a famed yachtsman, and with his daughter Margaret (Mrs. Charles Minot Amory, relict of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who died in the Lusitania disaster) a horse breeder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 2, 1931 | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...take two cases....oh, the Michigans is it? ....football? and all this time me thinking it was hockey....oh, well it all just goes to show one must keep abreast of the times....abreast, a breast of duckling....Mirabeau?....Eugenie?....sou cloche?....thanks I'll take mine with seltzer....sing a song of seltzer, sing a song of hey, waiter, how's for some more glasses?....yes, I know, but they just sort of slipped....some more of that fizzy magoozulum?....well, I don't mind....they say it's good for seasickness....CRASH....who fell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Why You Have Headaches" or "Champagne, Mirabeau, and Mooseheads," in Just One Act | 11/8/1930 | See Source »

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