Word: freshened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Magazine editors who edit for millions know the value of a theme, which, how ever falsely, shows that the many are more fortunate than the few. But so stale and discredited is the theme that alert editors nowadays freshen up the piece by having it told and signed by the "society girl" herself. Last fortnight nickel-weekly Liberty published a story titled...
...nightwatchman, or the fellow who is in love with her. You guess all the time that the director did it, so you are disappointed to find in the end that you were right. The comedy supplied by Neil Hamilton is supposed to open windows so that air can freshen up the suspense, but Hamilton gets boring and the technical detail is much too sloppy for a murder story. Best shot: the murdered man sitting in a chair usually reserved for a stage dummy...
...families of U. S. babbitts an entrée of sorts in Paris. Whether Miss Maxwell actually frowns upon this practice would be hard to say. Her entrée, at least, is still tolerably smart. She is just the woman, decided the Blancs, the Radziwills, the Bonapartes, to freshen up "Monte," to get the right people going there again. Despatches told last week that Miss Maxwell is now in Monte Carlo, at a salary of $50,000 per year, and possessed of a bonus of 400 shares of Casino stock. Officially, it is announced, she will "reorganize Monte Carlo...