Word: counters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happily married, learns of her husband's infidelity from a manicurist, but too many of her friends have their claws polished by the same girl. The story is out; it is enlarged and twisted until the unwilling wife fices to Reno, letting her husband marry Crystal, form the perfume counter at Saks. For two years she lives with her children in seclusion, brushing up on technique. Then one day Little Mary comes home from visiting Daddy and drops the remark that Auntic Crystal isn't the saint she might be. From there it is not hard for the first...
...barks, "there must be immediate seizure of power." Throughout the film Stalin is shown frequently, studying maps, arranging for Lenin's safety, an importantly busy factotum in the revolution headquarters in Smolny Institute. Trotsky never once appears, although a character devised to resemble him skulks with the counter-revolutionists...
...Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Alexander Korda). To save a remaining few aristocratic necks from Robespierre's guillotine, Producer Korda rounds up Sir Percy Blakeney's old crowd of counter-revolutionists, sends them out after Robespierre's own head. Famous Scarlet Pimpernel was well-schooled Actor Leslie Howard. The new one is Actor Barry Barnes, who is very British, often squeaky, and leads the cast in overacting...
...into line. New Orleans, one of the three cities west of the Mississippi which banned LIFE, used an 1884 statute to pull the magazines off the newsstands. In Tucson, only far-Western city to object, the publisher of the Arizona Star sold 25 copies of LIFE over his own counter in defiance of the police. The Memphis Press-Scimitar contrasted the local ban on LIFE with open sale at the same time of Sex Guide, The Nudist and Tattle Tales. Though William Jay Schieffelin, vice president of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, thought "LIFE rendered...
...fundamental purpose of the Guide has always been to serve the incoming Freshmen by offering them the opinion of students with regard counter in their first year at Harvard. Since it is written from the point of view of students, its conclusions may not always square with those of University Hall. Since every variety of reaction to any one course is possible among undergraduates themselves, some men may find that they have been misguided. But every effort is made not only to be scrupulously fair to every course and every instructor, but also, through careful choice of a cross section...