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Readers Humphrey & Smith's contemporaries will not find their questions naïve. Once a fashionable word (about 1760) and used by boys behind the barn some 20 years ago, "hump" is seldom heard in a sexual sense today. In the magazine (For Men Only) that printed it (and was acquitted of obscenity by a New York City magistrate) the word was used as a noun meaning "prostitute": "I walked at night, asked every hump I passed if she knew a Louise...
...holding out for more than the $5,000 a picture he has been getting from Republic Pictures. In an effort to frighten him back into the corral for the twelve pictures planned for him, Republic picked Rogers from a minor role in Autry's last film, The Old Barn Dance, starred him in the current cinema, which was originally called Washington Cowboy. A 25-year-old, Wyoming-born Indian-Irish-American, Roy Rogers smiles like old Western Star Gary Cooper, rides like a streak, does everything Autry does for about one-fifth of Autry's salary...
...Today's action is final and is not subject to review by any other tribunal." But grain traders agreed last week that the event was only the first round of the best knockdown & dragout speculators' battle that has taken place behind the U. S. farmer's barn in many a harvest moon...
...That Glitters is a waggish yarn about the peccadillos of Manhattan bluebloods and, according to rumor, based on fact. Playboy Muggy Williams swears to nail Mrs. Townsend's hide to his barn door because she insulted his fiancée. He hires a senorita from a Park Avenue brothel to pose as a Spanish countess. Promptly, Mrs. Townsend plans a dinner in her honor, where the countess, according to Muggy's plans will disgrace the dowager with a strip-tease act. The hitch comes when one of Muggy's best friends, three hours before the stripping, announces...
...written orders to come early and stay to the bitter end, the faithful began to arrive in free busses by 8 p. m. They filed into the armory to face a banner as big as a barn hung over the speakers' platform : JERSEY CITY 100% AMERICAN. REDS KEEP OUT. After an interlude while entertainers kept the crowd amused, suddenly a green-jacketed, tin-hatted Hudson County Legion Band swung down the aisle blaring The Stars & Stripes Forever, followed by a color guard, a regiment of white-capped Legionnaires. The band wheeled, played the Star-Spangled Banner, a black-gowned...