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wealth to buy land, seed and tools for jobless farmers. Whereupon the scheming administrators begged that the court toss Mr. Deeds into the booby hatch. That was one main pursuit. Proving himself sane was Mr. Deeds'.
"Small people hate and fear anything that is different and will kill it if they can."
In Theodora Goes Wild righteous citizens demanded the suppression of a sexy novel published serially in the local paper. Unknown to the villagers their very own Theodora Lynn was the authoress of that naughty book.
As soon as the local newspaper consented to stop publication of the offending story, and indignation had died down, Theodora skipped off to her publisher in New York to find out why it was necessary to sell the serial rights to her book in her home town. And when that burst of indignation died down in stepped the artist who designed the jacket to her book.
Smitten, the artist followed her back home and in order to be near her threatened to expose her authorship to the townspeople unless she got him a job gardening for her Aunt, with whom Theodora was living. And love came to Theodora.
Eyed into a bad case of fidgets by local busybodies who disapproved of covert romancing, Theodora suddenly proclaimed her love for all to hear and defied every woman in the village to go ahead and do something about it. Whereupon the artist decamped; leaving no explanation.
Following him to the city, Theodora learned that he was unhappily married and seeking a divorce ; that his father, a prominent man socially and politically, insisted on no scandal in the divorce proceedings.
Not until small town and big town fear of scandal, first expressed by righteous and conventional suburbanites and later by the same kind of urbanites began to get oppressive, did the two main pursuits mature.
Two society girls on a scavenger hunt, looking for a Forgotten Man, a game they were playing, for prizes, discovered Godfrey, a tramp, on a city dump. In helping one of the girls win first prize Godfrey won a job as butler in her home.
Outside of an apparently casual interest in the job
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