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...Lawyer Dwight's name was, rightly or wrongly, down on Secretary Morgenthau's list as a practitioner of income tax devices such as the White House was now condemning. However remotely, Partner Hughes's father's name might now be linked with that of a specimen in the Congressional fishbowl. Instant dissolution of this link was the only thing possible for Mr. Hughes...
...life and disability insurance. That it was able to involve such a man as Dean Wyckoff was testimony to the fine art it has become. The racket: fraudulent doctors and lawyers give a heavily insured "patient"' violent exercises, purges and doses of digitalis. When they achieve a plausible specimen of exhaustion and palpitation, they get his condition on record by hospitalizing him under a conspiring physician's care. Cardiograms, sphygmomanometer readings, charts and reports pile up the evidence. Then comes the payoff: the certification of a reputable heart specialist, called in to examine the patient for myocarditis...
This Is My Affair (Twentieth Century-Fox) is an engaging specimen of period cinema, dealing with a turn-of-the-century G-Man. Lieutenant Richard L. Perry (Robert Taylor) is secretly assigned by President McKinley to investigate the operations of a band of Midwest bank-robbers whose uncanny efficiency suggests that they are in league with Government officials. Lieutenant Perry gets off to a flying start by falling in love with the gang's most eligible female member, Lil Duryea (Barbara Stanwyck) and is on the way to a brilliant solution of the case when President McKinley is shot...
...spiders of the species Nephila plumipes (who spun the "finest webs") were busy working for M. Grantaire, that he shipped them to customers in "little paper boxes, so many dozen in each crate." that the Queen spider was named "Sara Bernhardt," that her consort, fearsome "Emile Zola," was a specimen of the famed "bird-hunting spiders of Surinam." When M. Grantaire tapped on one of her filaments, Reporter Paine's straight-faced account continued, "Sara" ran up his finger for a fly, after which "the startling pet tripped back indoors with the booty...
Penny Wise (by Jean Ferguson Black; Juliana Morgan, producer) belongs to a trivial and pleasant species of growth which, like grape hyacinth, hepatica and the dogtooth violet, crops up in southern New York State spring after spring. This particular specimen of a vernal theatrical perennial is concerned with the clever wife