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...Soviet officials I have dealt with are cultured and really swell persons! They are paying me so much that in three years I shall be independently wealthy. Many times of late I have awakened in the night, terrified lest my good fortune was a dream...
...minutes the President, standing in the Blue Room, shook hand after hand after hand. Many an exuberant guest, ignorant of White House etiquet, wrung the President's fingers instead of allowing him to do the shaking. The President's hand turned red and began to swell. Jeweled rings cut into his palm and finger tips. The President noticed he was getting blood on ladies' white gloves. He felt fatigued. White House Physician Joel Boone ordered him to cut short the ordeal, retire upstairs. Behind were left several thousand unhandshaken guests. Next day the President appeared with...
...been presented at Buckingham Palace. Long Island plain folk last week followed the young couple's entourage, rubbed elbows with them as often as possible, listened to Candidate Whitney declare the campaign issues were too complex to be discussed briefly. Candidate Whitney endorses the entire Democratic platform as "swell," recommends downward tariff revision. Congressional investigation of the B. E. F.'s ejection from Washington, the establishment of local boards of ''patriotic citizens'' throughout the nation to pass on cases of needy veterans for whom the full Bonus would be cashed instanter. Observers sensed that his last proposal was a trial...
...unfortunately the habit of undergraduate journalism to damn everything within its sight, giving little thought save to the sensation invariably subsequent. This may swell the coffers, but in the long run it will prove a poor policy. (Name withheld with regrets...
...cast, might have become convincing. After the first half hour, however, the audience loses interest in the plot. There is not too much disappointment; after all it has played money to see Dietrich, and there she is, beautiful as ever, even without benefit of direction. Such an attitude may swell box office receipts, but it does not make for good art. Clearcut motivation is a prime essential to good drama; in this respect "Blonde Venus" is found sadly wanting, and therein lies its fundamental weakness...