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...Boots met in the mile-and-an-eighth Blue Grass Stakes, traditional Derby preview, at Lex ington, Ky. It was a holiday in horsy Lexington. Both Whirlaway and Boots were born within whinnying distance of Lexington's courthouse. Natives, who knew that Our Boots, by Bulldog out of Maid of Arches, comes from a family notable for speed rather than staying qualities, made Whirlaway the favorite...
...Great Lie (Warner Bros.). For three years and three pictures Bette Davis and George Brent have tried to get together. In Jezebel Brent died dueling. In Dark Victory a brain tumor dispatched Miss Davis. Then it was Brent's turn again: he failed to live through The Old Maid. In The Great Lie they finally make it. The end leaves them in each other's arms, lark-happy...
...inherit the place. The other (Joan Blondell) strings along as friend and funster, gets a knife in her back before the night is out. Follows the usual Thorne Smith transmogrification in which Joan turns ghost, floats over to Topper's house, lures him, his wife (Billie Burke), her maid (Patsy Kelly) and his colored chauffeur (Eddie Anderson) back to the scene of the crime for a dose of spooks. Before Topper points a thin, hesitating finger at the murderer the film shows: Billie Burke in her familiar role as an addlepate; gravel-voiced Eddie Anderson falling through trap doors...
...instance, a ham sandwich is hamu sandowichi, tea is chee and coffee is kohi, which is as near as the Japanese can come to pronouncing these words. Gas is gasu, tobacco is tobaku and matches are matchi. Even in the country inns, the maid will come running in with a pair of surippa, bedroom slippers. Beer is biru. When you indicate that you want to get out of a bus the conductress cries stoppu to the driver. As you step into the street she shouts after you orai, which stands for "all right" but is actually a form of farewell...
...been estimated that if the maid service were abolished and a self-service system installed in the dining halls the student would save five cents a meal or forty dollars a year. The twenty-one meal rate could be cut from ten dollars to nine dollars; the fourteen meal rate could be cut from eight-fifty to seven dollars and seventy-five cents; and lastly the ten meal rate could be reduced from seven-fifty to seven dollars. One crew of maids would be retained for the weekly House dinners working in a different House every night. The system would...