Word: wanderlied
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...restaurants he could watch his hat & coat, who hurt his leg falling off an ironing board while pressing his pants. Early this month Gracie simpered the news that her brother had disappeared. The stunt was to find him. Columbia Broadcasting's part lay in letting Burns & Allen wander in & out of other station programs. Amid prearranged confusion they burst in with a flood of stupid questions as to the whereabouts of the daft brother. Audiences loved it. Newspaper colyumists gave it columns of space. And last week Animal Hunter Frank Buck (Bring 'Em Back Alive) joined the nonsensical...
...with the scared walls? They impede the course of Freshmen who make last minute dashes for the New Lecture Hall for History 1 lectures, not enough light enters the old windows to make it adequate for a good examination room. The janitor will not allow people to wander over the building because he fears they may be careless enough to let some stray cigarette ash fall on her floors and set her in flame, but a moment of grace is granted for viewing her dusty roots. In the heat of the old basement one discovers the remains...
Tourists who go to Vienna nowadays may pay a few schillings and wander fairly freely through the gloomy Imperial Palace. They may gaze to their heart's content at the iron cot on which old Franz Josef slept, at the basin in which ample Maria Theresa bathed. But one wing in the Hofburg is barred to them. Tourists are not allowed to prowl through the rooms which belonged to Archduke Rudolf, Franz Josef's son who died mysteriously at his hunting lodge at Mayerling. Rudolf's rooms have not been preserved as a museum for tragic memories...
...story of three vaudevillains who wander into the Glogauer Studios and persuade Herman Glogauer to let them teach his actors elocution, remains essentially unchanged. The vaudevillains fail in their endeavor but one of them is rewarded, for unprecedented impertinence to his employer, by being put in complete charge of all Glogauer productions. He (Jack Oakie) distinguishes himself by making a picture, which turns out to be a hit, from the wrong script; by buying 2,000 airplanes so that he can get one free. If Once in a Lifetime is less funny because less angry than it was upon...
...politics. He gets his subjects from almost any place. Vacant lets, dogs, small boys, football games, office mice and alley cats all form sources of interest for his articles. Sometimes the reporter feels vigorous and dashes off an interview, but the Rover dislikes rainy days and often has to wander around and risk his chances of running into a live column of news. Often the Rover stays near a telephone all day and receives his suggestions by wire. People call him regarding their aunt who came over on the Mayflower, or concerning some boot-black who knows the answer...