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Creator of these bookish detectives is tall, goggled Scenarist Harry Kurnitz, longtime mystery writer for pulp magazines, who writes under the false-whiskery pen name of Marco Page and the influence of Dashiell Hammett. His characters first appeared last spring in a spade-calling mystery novel, Fast Company, in which the main victim was poetically conked with a bust of Dante. Last summer Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice played them first for cinema in MGM's fumigated version. In Fast and Loose, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell show up as the likeliest pretenders to the places of William Powell...
Because he believes Conservation is CCC's first & foremost aim, Director Fechner also believes that for his corps the spade is mightier than the sword and a better weapon. Should U. S. youth be militarized to build up Army reserves, he would have Congress: i) forget the work program and go in exclusively for military training, 2) would draw trainees from all classes of the population. If this would make a final mockery of William James's peaceful idea, it would at least fulfill the James idea of making use of gilded youth...
Esau. Next to New York City's spunky, part-Jewish Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, whose manhandling by a disgruntled WPAster was front-page German news last week, the U. S. politician whom Nazis hate most is that spade-is-a-spade "Aryan," Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes...
...Boston's hoary monuments to Brahmin gentility, that still stands like the Great Pyramid, is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At its Friday afternoon concerts in venerable Symphony Hall, bald, spade-bearded oldsters and their classically corseted wives sit complacently, laved in the patrician strains of Beethoven and Brahms. So have they sat every week since the late Major Henry Lee Higginson, in 1881, materialized the expensive idea that Boston ought to have a good symphony orchestra. That idea cost Major Higginson a million dollars...
Matching stride for stride with tens of thousands of tanned, healthy, spade-carrying German Labor Front workers who tramped across Nürnberg's green field, tens of thousands of tanned and healthy young Russian parachute jumpers, pilots and sharpshooters, children clutching airplane models and girls in nurses' uniforms trooped across Red Square behind dipped crimson banners. The only direct reference to Germany among the hundreds of banners attacking Fascism and aggressor nations were those proclaiming "Bolshevist greetings to the revolutionary proletariat in Germany...