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...diamonds in her hair, at the aristocratic Music Box. The chorus is beautiful and abundant; the costumes are glamorous and scanty. Bouncing Bobby Clark is there for laughs, and Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee is there for lure. Tropical Georgia Sothern is there for the really intense customers, and fat, shameless Carrie Finnell for the really incorrigible ones. Star and Garter is a riot of off-color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Banner Week | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...attack on Hawaii and the Philippines (normal suppliers of almost one-third of the U.S.'s sugar) somewhat subdued even sugar-shameless Joe O'Mahoney. Nonetheless, he took his shellacking in character. Three days after Pearl Harbor he was still telling the Senate Committee that some freeze-out of Cuba was essential to domestic sugar growers and that it would not affect U.S. sugar supplies till after the war anyway, because the lid is off for the duration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUGAR: Haymaker | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

Flynn: "... A mucker who has run amuck ... a demagogue of demagogues . . . the greatest faker on the American political scene ... the most super-colossal hypocrite . . . clown . . . this mountebank Mayor." Farley: "Breast-beating faker." Lehman: ". . . Shameless, scurrilous . . . insulting and vicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Invective &. Abuse | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Before long Ellen was reduced to a soft, whining, pleading, quivering mass of lust and fear-fear of losing Ed. Naturally he tired of this and left her, with studied brutality. Ellen made frantic, shameless, almost somnambulistic efforts to get him back, finally saw no escape from her agony but the night-black waters of Lake Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up to the Parlor | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...week for New Jersey bosses, Atlantic County's Republican Boss Enoch ("Nucky") Lewis Johnson took it on the double chin. Long a shameless devourer of graft, showgirls & champagne, Boss Johnson stood before a Federal bar, smiled blandly when a jury foreman said: "Not Guilty." Second later, Nucky's tough face turned an unbecoming yellow at: "Guilty!" and "Guilty!" He had been convicted of cheating the Government out of taxes on $124,800 in '36 and '37. He had escaped conviction on a charge of doing the same thing in '35. Useful witnesses: operators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Lightning by Edison | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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