Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to horn in on making a little money. . . . The number who have been implicated in graft is very small although it looms large in the public's mind. It may be my own fault. . . . I may have made a mistake in kicking a lot of this stuff outdoors. But I don't like it when people . . . finagle around the back door...
...auto company. You talk for ten minutes about knee action, down-draft carburetor, no draft ventilation, and free wheeling. Maybe you throw in a couple af anecdotes about the time you went to the automobiles show. Then and only then have you answered the question. If you know your stuff about automobiles, and if you are a fast writer, and if the man who corrects the book has not had too much for supper, you stand a pretty good chance of cracking, as the boys say, a good mark...
...humor of it, like the plot, is sunny and to-the-point. The quality which makes "Sailor, Beware" a charming evening is its complete simplicity; it doesn't seem possible than anyone could write such guiltless stuff with wheat selling at $1.06 and O'Neill's "Days Without End" on the boards. The hostesses in The Idle Hour Cafe talk with point and guste; they know that life is life. The heroine knows it too, but she has the old hourgeois respectability on her mind, and keeps pretty stiff-backed. Young "Dynamite," the aggressor, tries all manner of persuasions, from...
...dressed late-night crowd, and it has that old railway poster atmosphere. Your credit is good there, and if you come around real late you can have the left overs that won't keep till the next night, gratis. Watch the big bartender with the Hitler moustache do his stuff...
...fear that there is little to be said for the music in "All the King's Horses." It is very routine stuff; and at that, it is better than the singing. I sat just under the balcony, and a good part of the two lead's songs failed to reach me; the Shubert is not a large theatre, and this should not be. As for the chorus, my companion summed them up with the following: "Oh, they're just like the girls back at Briggs; I feel right at home...