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Practice varies about pointing and crying out. Some hold that these trimmings make "Babbitt" more exhilarating. The original Babbitt-George F.-as created by Author Sinclair Lewis, possessed the following: Head-large, pink, heavy. Hair-brown, thin, dry. Nose-Sloping, blunt, heavy spectacle-dented. Chin-overfleshed, strong. Cheeks-pads. Hands-puffy, unroughened. Body-well-fed. Legs-thick. Feet-plump. Expression in slumber-babyish. Expression in thought-"gets things done." General expression - extremely married, prosperous. Clothes - standard, brown or gray; white piping in vest. (He would feel naked without fountain pen and silver pencil in vest pocket.) Neck-tie-purple knitted...
...Never Know Women (Florence Vidor and Lowell Sherman). Ernest Vajda, suave Hungarian creator of stage comedy, has been retained to write a motion picture. He has again indicated that the one talent does not necessarily embrace the other. You Never Know Women is pale and thin. It tells of a Russian vaudeville troupe in the U. S.; how the man-about-town interfered with the lovely acrobat's love for the magician. Miss Vidor, Mr. Sherman and an originally resourceful director called William Wellman have saved much from the wreck...
...full curving lips closed with an unctuous suction about his thin, bloodless muzzle. Slowly, cautiously his tongue pressed a wadded spitball into her mouth...
...flying speck vanished away from the aerodrome at Le Bourget, outside Paris. They saw it pass near Strasbourg. Austrians and Hungarians glanced aloft shortly after. Dour Serbs eyed its flight over their dark mountains. Quarrelsome Bulgars and the night-watchmen of Constantinople heard its thin droning and all night it sped on over Anatolia, Kurdistan, down the Euphrates Valley to meet the dawn. At Basra in Irak, where the Euphrates, led by the Tigris, floods down to the Persian Gulf and men are said to have flown on magic carpets, the speck finally came to earth. Captain Ludovic Arrachart...
...Thin, tightlipped, square-shouldered, undistinguished outwardly save as young editors sometimes look alert and vigorous, Gerald P. Nye has done very well for himself without any of the paternal glamor that has assisted Robert Lafollette, aged 31, Nye's only rival for "youngster of the Senate." All things being equal, doubtless Senators Nye and Lafollette will reminisce together some decades from now in the august Chamber, over episodes of the mid-Nineteen-Twenties, which no one else then present will come any where near remembering...