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At the beginning of this picture, Nick Charles (William Powell) says to one of his favorite bartenders: "A dry martini should be shaken to waltz time." This conceit is the most disputable bit of deductive reasoning which Nick Charles executes in the course of The Thin Man. A retired detective...
Long Life. Seth Lincoln, 91, of Worcester (Mass.), works as a typesetter in a publishing house. He is keen-witted, clear-skinned, sound as a nut. His "ideal" old age is probably due less to good family history, sensible diet and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco than to the fact...
Last week in a big, bright room on the eighth floor of its Chicago administration building was held a corporation's annual meeting for which the build-up had been long & loud. The horrid-sounding charges which Joseph I. Zook, as head of a self-appointed stockholders protective "association...
This remark came early in an address entitled "Can We Rehabilitate the Criminal," Bates, a solidly built, quick-witted, unaffected speaker, began his remarks in this vein: "I daresay there is considerable difference of opinion here on this subject. Furthermore, I am a bit hesitant about talking penology before such...
He accepts his daughter's marriage to a "medicaler" with bitter resignation but he is overjoyed when she bears a boy who, he believes, will inherit the Hofnagel power. When the baby contracts diphtheria Hofnagel prevents his son-in-law from administering antitoxin by shooting him in the shoulder...