Word: boyfriend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some unaccountably stayed put. Sample: Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson Henjes. Last March, when she was still Maud Stevenson and yachtsman Robert H. Henjes was only her "boyfriend" (her own term), she & he tiffed. The tiff wound up in a Long Island police station where Maud, stripped down to brassiere and half slip, bit and kicked a cop like nobody's business...
...wins such hard-to-get parishioners with his regular-guy sincerity and his easy scorn of cant or ecclesiastical primness. Once, when a high-school audience began to settle back in boredom at being addressed by a pastor, he told them the story of the girl who called her boyfriend "Pilgrim" because every time he came over he made progress. The principal never asked him back, but the audience listened hard after that...
...Pringle girl (Virginia Welles)-secretly, in deference to the feud. When he ships overseas, his younger sister, Corliss (Shirley Temple), mixes in the intrigue and is spotted sneaking her sister-in-law into the obstetrician's. Shirley quixotically claims the pregnancy for herself and names her moony boyfriend (Jerome Courtland) as the reluctant father. What happens from that point on makes one of the year's fastest and funniest comedies...
When wellborn Erica Drake said she was going to marry her Jewish boyfriend, Father Drake howled his head off, Mother Drake wept torrents, the best people were appalled. But Erica stuck, to her guns. First published as a serial in Collier's, 30-year-old Author Graham's study of anti-Semitism in Canada would probably have stirred up more interest if it read more like a novel, less like a studied, romantic essay...
...Navy has priority do not upset him at all. But they do upset his delicious secretary (Olivia de Havilland). She, in turn, obscurely upsets her boss, who, with no time for love, undertakes a secret study of books like How To Be Happily Married. Miss de Havilland's boyfriend (Jess Barker), a smooth young attorney in search of scandal, is also interested in her boss. Investigated at long last by the Senate, Planeman Tufts is saved only by Miss de Havilland's impetuous glorification, before the Committee, of Men Who Get Things Done. Amidst the dramatic moments...