Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen in A Hat, a Coat, a Glove. It merely shows that Mr. Mitchell has a 16-cylinder legal mind, with big names in his address book. For such a bland, patrician barrister, he is in a most astonishing predicament. His wife (Nedda Harrigan) has left him to sin with a young illustrator (Lester Vail). The illustrator has fished a drowning prostitute out of the East River, rushed off to ask Mrs. Mitchell what to do about her. Lawyer Mitchell has chosen this awkward first act moment to call upon the illustrator and settle the score with him. He finds...
...Paul Lukas in a high-society comedy scramble. Elissa is not at her best, but she is bearable. The plot is intricate, one you can puzzle out for yourselves; it involves maids and butlers taking the place of their mistresses and masters, while the masters and mistresses live in sin, and while the butlers and maids think each other other than they seem; it's a good picture...
...tries to pass this off and the simple defense mechanism in his words "You and me is farmers nothing else" is strikingly touching. The now grown son, like father, ironically enough, loses the woman he loves to his half brother, and the elder Rood who pays doubly for his sin when Georgie becomes a prominent engineer in a glass works in another city, spends the sunset of his life with Mamie, after Jake Karcher meets his death at the hands of his wife...
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...prepared to review the code's price schedule, but, meantime, violators would be turned over to the Federal Trade Commission unless they promised to go and sin no more against Recovery. On the strength of this combined promise and threat, 50 of the littlest cleaners knuckled under, among them the St. Petersburg, Fla. "pressing-club" proprietor whom Federal Judge Akerman, on a technicality, had exculpated from the charge of "chiseling" the NRA fortnight before (TIME, Dec. 11). Those big enough to have lawyers for the most part did not knuckle under. Hysterically cried one Irving Brukstone, representing Chicago...