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Rare until recently has been the cinema heroine who preferred the stupid poor man to the bright city fellow. The viewpoint of The Purchase Price is simple and masculine. It advertises the virtue of hard work and loyalty. Good shot: the couple sow ing wheat on the prairie...
...Tourists of the U. S. country fairs are Belle, Snuffles, Betsy, Percy and Biddy-all models from the Department. Belle is a cow who waggles her mouth, spurts milk. Snuffles is a sow, Betsy and Percy her bloated shoats. Biddy is a hen who has traveled to England (TIME, Aug. 11, 1930). Biddy and Belle phonographically declare what they like to eat. Snuffles pleads for clean pastures. The shoats squeal...
...coffee, but they sang with a verve derogatory ditties about the police and patriots. The pinch of hunger had wizened their faces and made them look four or five years older than they were, but it had left their spirits free for the hatreds which the organizers chose to sow. This is the sketch which a college graduate living among the miners draws in the July Forum...
...Grand Hotel, told of the severe criticism she met in Germany when she declared a wish to become a U. S. citizen and have her two sons become Americans: "... I found on my desk letters in which gentle young Germans called me pet names. Of these 'Old Sow' was the friendliest. As I read these letters I had the sure feeling that young Americans would not address such words to a woman unknown to them. . . . That experience strengthened me in my resolution to raise my boys in a country in which it is not taken for granted that...
...death awakens the ulcer in Fergus' stomach, its starfish of pain begins to spread. He takes some drink to ease it, dies dreaming of dead friends and the sea. The Author. Englishman Leonard Alfred George Strong's first literary effort was a Chaucerian ballad about a sow named, after his grandmother, Amelia. This attracted his family's attention, but it was not until after he met up with Aldous Huxley, Robert Graves. Richard Hughes and Edmund Blunden at Oxford that his literary talent became widely recognized. A sometime theatrical cartoonist, ballad singer, actor, broadcaster, teacher...