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...venerable story of the henpecked husband who finally revolts against his wife and gleefully dons his rightful, symbolic trousers. This time he is stirred to action by his extraordinarily pretty third daughter (Bette Davis) who wants to marry a boy whom her mother dislikes and so escape the fate of her two sisters, fast shriveling into spinsterhood. The wedding takes place in the parlor while mother and two elder daughters are at the movies, and father, impregnated with hard cider, has summoned up enough courage to give his consent. Later, of course, the opposition returns and what was funny becomes...
...shade better on comparative scores. The convincing victory of the Blue Freshmen over their Nassau last Saturday makes them a decided favorite. Harvard has nary a victory to its credit, its closest semblance to a conquest being at 7 to 7 tie with Exeter, who by a turn of fate nosed out Yale...
Last week Habibullah Khan, ex-king of Afghanistan, né Bacha Sakao, the Water Boy bandit, was captured by victorious King Nadir, imprisoned in Kabul. Though Royal Nadir has on occasion fried Afghan generals in oil (TIME, Sept. 2), no such fate awaited Habibullah. He was taken out and humanely shot. Afghans attributed this softness to Nadir's years on the French Riviera...
STRICTLY DISHONORABLE?Funny fate of a Mississippi maiden in a speakeasy...
...protest which goes up as a result of the remarkable punishment meted out by the college to the offenders seems very well justified. Certainly not all those evicted could have been interested in the hidden cache, but the college has decided that all shall share a similar fate. Just at the time when the rugs have been laid on the floor and the furniture has begun to assume a natural air--then does the iron hand of the law drive the exiles out into the world to seek a new lodging. While the affair makes admirable copy for metropolitan newspapers...