Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Articles which Lady Houston wanted to reach a wider public than the Review's top circulation of 50,000 (achieved when the price was reduced to 4?) were put on the presses as pamphlets. At such times, Lady Houston's order was: "Keep on printing until I tell you to stop!" Sometimes "Lucy" forgot to call a halt, so the printers always arbitrarily ended their pamphlet press runs...
...Swarthout), who has gone there to complain about her rival's tactics, meets Buzzy, mistakes him for the consul. Their romance begins when, he inducts her into the technique of chewing gum; nearly smashes when, in the picture's funniest sequence, she telephones the real consul to tell him she has swallowed her gum-a call which is intercepted, with much double entendre, by the consul's wife. After learning Buzzy's real identity, Elsa parts from him only to be reunited after many vicissitudes when he is a rundown member of a dilapidated supper band...
...them is notable. Whatever merits Champagne Waltz possesses are dependent on the well-seasoned comic abilities of Jack Oakie, cast as Happy Gallagher, manager of the band. Badly befuddled by the ways of Europeans, Gallagher wanders through elaborate settings making remarks like "60 feet away you can't tell them apart and 60 days later you don't care. . . . All women drive you screwy except your mother and she drove your old man screwy." Best musical number: dream sequence of Johann Strauss playing his Blue Danube for the Emperor. Worst comedy sequence: members of Bellew's Band...
...Rulers of three-fourths of the West's privately-owned range, the cattlemen were a sober-sided lot. Drawled C. M. Newman, arrangements committee chairman and an oldtime El Pasoan, as he doffed his black sombrero to the delegates: "It's getting so you can't tell a cattleman from a businessman." Only half the cattlemen sported high-heel boots and ten-gallon hats. None tucked in his pants. Sheep raisers and cattlemen, who traditionally loathe one another, shared tables in the Juarez cabarets. The only six-gun to be seen in El Paso last week...
...nicknamed "The Window," founded Manter Hall School, where for 38 years he tutored students so they could pass Harvard courses. "The Window" died in 1923, but his school still functions. Its promotion literature, left in dormitories and its advertising in The Crimson stress the founders success, and tell present-day students to "ask Dad--Ask Grandad...