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...respectable suitor, who has persuaded her to do so, proves himself to be the most broad-minded cinema hero of the year. He gathers Temple in his arms, tells her stupid father they should both be proud of her. In the part that George Raft refused because it would "offend his public," Jack La Rue - a heavy-lidded young Italian who went to Hollywood to play in Scarface and lost the part to Raft - is effectively sinister. Miriam Hopkins gives a brilliant performance as Temple Drake. Good shot : Temple fidgeting with her hat after she has pried...
Still anxious lest they offend their Dry enemies, the New York brewers, through Col. Jacob Ruppert, had announced that the new brew would not be delivered until 6 a. m. on historic April 7 so that there would be no "carnival of untoward celebration." Next day at lunch time, New Yorkers thronged forth to try their beer. First problem was to find it. Most hotels and clubs were serving but elsewhere distribution was capricious. Some soft drink stands and cafeterias had it, some did not. Householders found 3.2% beer at most chain groceries, but late the first day most stocks...
Bears. Minister of Agriculture von Rohr sent an order to all German State Governments last week to forbid the entrance or performance of dancing bears in Germany. "These animals are often introduced by wandering gypsies," read the message, "and the tortures to which they are continually subjected offend German susceptibilities...
...used as a supplement to the books prescribed in a course rather than as a substitute for them. Students have found these outlines of use in arriving at a better understanding of the material presented in the courses. There has been no intention on our part to offend the authors or publishers...
...here uses advisedly a word offensive to Italians and other persons of Mediterranean origin. In the average U. S. vocabulary the word conveniently connotes foreigners of suspicious, possibly vicious character. (In distinction, "wop" seems to mean a more goodnatured individual.) Used without respect to nationality, let "dagoes" not unduly offend any national sensibilities.-ED. *The curious, eminently readable, 89-year-old Nassau Guardian, semiweekly (circulation 3,000), composed on old tombstones and jointly owned by Miss Mary Moseley and Knowlton Lyman ("Junior") Ames of Chicago, assistant to Col. William Franklin Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News. *In 1893 Carter...