Word: ve
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hangman's House. An authentic Irish flavor, a grand horse race and a Citizen Hogan (Victor McLaglen) who says: "You'll have to excuse me for a while, as I've got a man to kill," are refreshing in the film version of Donn Byrne's fine novel...
...afraid," said the greasier pedagogue courteously, "that you won't be able to much. We've worked for three hours ourselves...
...course there are lots of plain fellows like me who've got the idea that Harvard is a dignified and aristocratic sort of joint and that Harvard men are different from the rest of the world...
...Garfunkel, founder of the Busy Bee Restaurants in Manhattan, is through (i.e., he is going to give his restaurants to his three children and set out for playgrounds with his wife). Said he: "For 40 years I've worked from 5 o'clock in the morning until 8 o'clock at night. I've never had a real vacation. Now I'm going to play. I want to go to Palm Beach, to Europe, to Carlsbad, Vienna, Paris and Switzerland. I am going to retire, quit. I am tired. Money is not everything. . . . Frankfurters, coffee...
...insistence upon his own boredom with the matter in hand and indifference to the curiosity of his reader, Author Wylie tells his age-old story with gusto, relish, and a naïve zest in his discovery of the differences between two successive generations. Wise enough, perhaps, to know that there is no answer, he offers none...