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...seeks that precious jewel with all his heart. The talk was of travel; yet not travel of the common sort but of the imagination. For it is known to the Vagabond and those who have followed his trails that without imagination the richest course is bare; with it the dullest facts ascend those clouds of interest...
...Deal was going to run greedy fingers into their pants' pockets and pick out more of the money they had been saving for their heirs. In June President Roosevelt formally initiated this operation by proposing to Congress his taxation-for-social-reform program. Thereafter even the dullest and most irresponsible millionaire could see that, unless he started passing on his capital under the present estate and gift taxes, his heirs would get considerably less than he intended under the revenue rates soon to be enacted by Congress. How many wealthy taxpayers began to "beat the gun," as President Roosevelt...
Anybody but W.C. Fields would have a difficult time making "It's a Gift" an entertaining cinema, but the premier genius of cinematic humor has already proven his ability to diffuse even the dullest of material with a spirit of universally appealing humor, and by dial of his admirable skill "It's a Gift" is a truly amusing film. The general make up is typical of the sort of stuff against which Fields has to contend but he produces two especially tickling scenes. The age-old struggle of the male against the female for the bathroom mirror is most laughably...
Jesse Jones buttonholed Mr. Van Sweringen in the lobby for a heart-to-heart. The trustees insisted that some reorganization plan be presented. The protective committees insisted that this was no time to reorganize. It was announced that further powwows would be held. After what he called "about the dullest affair" he had attended in a long time, Jesse Jones went back to Washington to complain: "No one had a plan...
...Saturday Evening Post's tremendous family, Page No. 22 was always a page to skip. That was the editorial page, and generally the dullest in the magazine. While the G.O.P. was in power, the Satevepost rarely had anything to say editorially...