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...confused with Japan's unique ronin. Extremely proud & snobbish, the ronio take no pay for their thuggery, which is exclusively political and supposed to be patriotic. Generally attached to some potent Japanese politician, a modern group of ronin seldom commit violence themselves, spend their time plotting and instigating patriotic youngsters, such as the assassins of ex-Finance Minister Inouye (TIME, Feb. 22) and the Empire's No. 1 financier, Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (TIME, March 14). Most famed, almost deified in Japan, are the Forty-Seven Ronin, heroes of feudal thuggery who avenged the death of their daimyo...
...three of them drop dead. Their high mortality rate is due to a half-caste girl (Myrna Loy) who was not allowed to join the sorority and has been nursing her grudge. As assistant to a dizzy astrologer ( Henry Gordon) she has written poison pen letters to all her snobbish schoolmates. She is preparing to follow up her disastrous circulars with more direct methods when a smart detective (Ricardo Cortez) catches up with her on the back platform of an express train...
Snooty and snobbish...
...California that was still bristling with forty-niners looked askance at Harte, with his foppish dress, his over-genteel manners. Harte returned the snobbish stare. With the flowing mustaches of his day, a leonine head of hair, an aquiline nose that hinted, without betraying his Jewish ancestry, Harte was a fine figure of a literary man. In later years it was reported that he had lived a rough and minerish life. Biographer Stewart doubts it, thinks Harte's devilishness was mostly in printing offices. As long as Harte kept culling posies from the rhetorical anthology he considered good writing...
...mere fact that Jean Harlow is a platinum blonde and plays the part of a society girl seems little cause for this misnomer. There is scarcely any connection between the title and the story of the reporter who leaves his faithful girl pal on the paper to marry the snobbish society heiress. The confines of the plutocracy make him unhappy, and he returns to the comparative freedom of his independence, via a pending divorce, and finds his true love in the girl he left behind...