Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jonesy. The Jones family has plenty to talk about: Father Jones is temporarily a jobhunter; Son Jones has a visiting boyfriend whose girlfriend has the telephone habit; there is no cereal for breakfast; plumbers are in the bathroom; a risque play has been raided downtown; Son Jones has sold the family car to pay poker debts and is traipsing around after an actress...
...actress whose virtue was a British household word -a thoroughly wicked woman, grist to the Arlenesque mill. This crafty villainess bewitches the carthorse into cad, and breaks Lily Christine's heart. Not the least of the heroine's anguish is over a respectable middle-class boyfriend whom she has unwittingly involved in the scandal. And just as the plot is thickening pleasantly, Lily Christine's creator pitches her under the wheels of a motor-lorry...
...OFFICE - Nathan Asch - Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). Some staccato words are ripped out. There is The Office: tape, shares, toil, sex, money. The office fails and you go home with the various people whose lives centre in it. A stenographer has to forget the junior partner and marry her boyfriend. The stupid figurehead of the firm trembles, tells his wife. Clerks curse, get other jobs. The junior partner brandishes his cane, plans to run away and be a heman; slinks to his father instead. The crooked partner plans another office. Author Asch seems to know his Wall Street and hate...