Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virgin. Anni Rutz, awkward, homely, sweet-tempered daughter of a widowed candy shop proprietress, will play the Virgin this year. Anni is a typist in a saw mill, the first blonde to play Mary in the living memory of Oberammergau. No trouble has she had in fulfilling the obligation of the chosen Virgin to lead a seemly life. For a while it seemed that her younger, much prettier and lazier sister might receive the vote, but the Oberammergau electors are discerning men, not to be influenced by appearances...
...when he finds out she is crooked too. The complications, which reach their climax in a party given at the house of the rich woman whom the gang is out to rob, are made tolerable by their occasional humor and the acting of able bit-characters. Best shot: a sweet old lady, introduced in early sequences as Lila Lee's grandmother, revealed as an astute, avaricious criminal...
...could fall back on some good old Marine Corps unprintable phrases, but I will just say that I HEAR lusty-lunged Marines singing the strains of "Sweet Adeline" in Quantico, Va., Baltimore, Washington, D. C., San Diego, California, Tientsin, China, and many other places, and down in front of the stands, wearing a pleased smile, is the one and only Smedley Darlington Butler, Major General, U. S. Marine Corps. You will find that the General has many more friends than enemies...
Because it is easier to fire a field of winter grass in the spring than it is to plow the stubble under, and because "burning off" brings sweet young grass for cows to eat, many a U. S. husbandman is responsible for brush blazes that sometimes sweep into forest fires. Spring burnings last week sent greedy flames licking through richly wooded areas in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, eating up many a sawmill and farmhouse in their way, leaving charred dead acres in their wake. Virginia's Natural Bridge National Park lost 9,000 acres of timber; the Shenandoah National...
Compare most of those letters that appear, to the really intelligent one of Peter S. Ellis. However, I can add but little to your courageous comment below the letters. It is short, sweet, correct. My vote of thanks here for one magazine not afflicted with a Reform-Complex nor the ostrich tactics of some individuals...