Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Wood was worth a cover and five columns [TIME, June 20], but here's something you missed. I hope he won't mind...
Since public sentiment seems to favor the many whom Actress Bennett has had occasion to score in the recent press, why not publish the Pogany portrait of this "round shouldered, thick-thighed" champion to give them their real money's worth? If the portrait is as foul as she says it is, the Public will be pleased; if it flatters her, the Public will be certain all this court to-do is just another cheap stunt to get cheaper publicity for her next movie, which is certain to be a flop. One of the Public...
...forgot . . . loved ones be left to wait and wonder-all because you neglected to write a letter? Somewhere someone is waiting for your letter-waiting to say "I love you too" or "Yes, we have a job for you." Write a letter. . . . It's a habit well worth cultivating, for every letter that you write, is "Very truly yours...
...having review day today, transporting grads back to their childhood with Valentino's "Son of the Shiek." "Roberts" with Dunne, Astaire and Rogers is on the same bill. Tomorrow brings "Divorce of Lady X," a sophisticated English comedy, with Merle Oberon very attractive in Technicolor. And it will be worth sitting through half of "College Swing" to see Martha Raye, with a French accent, singing "Howja Like to Love...
...while earning it was worth it." The only thing that bothered him, when he read back over his diary, was that there was so much writing about troubles and squabbles in it. "I started out," he reflected, "with the idea that I would not mention any troubles at all, but that is about all the news there...