Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enclosures. One began "Would you marry rich?", another "U.S. filled with girls who are wealthy and single," still another gave descriptions and photographs of prospective spouses. "A vivacious blue-eyed blonde of 22 in search of her ideal. 5 ft., 4 in., 118 lba., sunny nature. Has property worth $10,000.00." "A lovable 54 year old widow of means. Owns a farm and a town house, and would like to find a capable mate to help her manage her affairs...
...they are not enough. With congress lies the next move--casting off of the shackles of the neutrality act. It will mean a fight to the finish with the isolationists who, though well intentioned, would prevent America from taking steps in her own defense; but it will be worth the effort if some enactment along the lines of the recent Stimson suggestions--combines, perhaps, with certain of the Pittman cash-and-carry provisions--can be made. Only thus, ion fact, can America make more likely her chance of remaining at peace...
...draws too heavily on one of the fullest bags of tricks in the business; her white hands are at times just a touch too dramatic. But from Donald Oenslager's faithful Victorian drawing room set to Prossy's champagne jag, this production is all of a piece. It is worth going to see, for Pygmalion is not Mr. Shaw's only triumph...
...England for their honeymoon went the heaviest married couple in the world: Australia's Barney Worth, 26, 686 Ibs. (waistline: 7 ft.), and Joy, 27, 420 Ibs. (waistline: over 6 ft.). Because Worth sprained his ankle on the voyage from Australia, he could not mount the ship's gangway at Boulogne, had to be hoisted aboard by derrick, unloaded the same way. Asked how he met his wife, Barney Worth replied: "She came into my butcher's shop for some meat. She bought a lot, and I liked her idea of an appetite. ... It was love...
...absentminded Wall Street begwig, is constantly funny, and Deanna herself, in the course of straightening out her sisters' affaires du coeur, upsets the conventional applecart on many a delightful occasion. Add to this the music--which, this time, included "The Last Rose of Summer"--and the whole is well-worth the holdover which, we have on good authority, is scheduled...