Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each has about the same number of patients, apparently physically the same and afflicted with the same disease but each knows about a different gargle. While Dr. Hathaway firmly ensconces his support behind sickly, sweet Glucose, Dr. Means defiantly orders Dobell's, which is rumored but not confirmed to contain carbolic acid...
Gladsome in Bombay last week a wealthy 60-year-old Hindu, reported just rejuvenated by Dr. Voronoff, invited guests to the celebration of his marriage with a girl of 13. Rejoiced the old bridegroom: "As the night approaches I feel as young as my sweet bride...
...wagged his head in self-reproof. He looked long at the picture on his desk, and then his gaze wandered guiltily to his book, now abandoned on the floor. Again he stood at the window, but this time he saw nothing. He took in great gulps of the sweet air, trying to choke himself on the scents of Spring...
...Sweet Music (Warner) is Rudy Vallee's most successful venture into cinema. Perceiving that the flaw in his previous productions was the fact that they required him to act, the authors of this one carefully made its hero, Skip Houston, a complimentary portrait of Vallee himself. Consequently, between songs, he is required to do little more than give an imitation of himself which he contrives to do successfully by smiling in a vacuous way and speaking in a low, bland monotone...
Since this achievement could scarcely be considered a well-rounded evening's entertainment even by Crooner Vallee's most fervent admirers, Sweet Music contains other ingredients. The story investigates Skip Houston's mismanaged romance with a Chicago tap-dancer (Ann Dvorak). Through it scrambles a host of entertaining minor characters impersonated by a quorum of Warner Brothers' large roster of comedians, notably Ned Sparks, as the dancer's irascible manager, and Allen Jenkins, as Skip Houston's pressagent. Alice White, as a scatterbrained chorus girl, does the best acting in the picture. Of Sweet...