Eve's Hollywood

He could only be described in Le Conte’s limited official vocabulary by the words “poor attitude.” What an anxious and innocent word to try to pin on Aces, “attitude”! He was an enemy inside their walls. It was too late and there was no way to get him out of there because he was only 15 and the law says that 16 is the earliest you can get anything

A blonde girl with Estonian slanting green eyes and high, wide cheekbones made an English teacher apologize in front of an entire class for telling her to be quiet during a test—her pout was devastating and tragic and universally personal.

In the Depression, when most of them came here, people with brains went to New York and people with faces came West.