Norwood persuasively urged Marvin to accept that he had eclipsed his poor-white status from his past.Then Elsa Mae bops him over the head with a large megaphone.When his wife comments, "the child's only playin' with ya, you fool," he mutters that he doesn't "understand her funning.He remembered a year earlier, when they had again almost considered elling Tony: "I wish it was a year ago, when you came to say goodbye.And still, not all of them are back.There is alarming news that women's skirts are going to become shorter.Already, they are six inches above the ankle.Bobbed hair is introduced but very timidly.A young upstart named Jack Dempsey is scheduled o meet Jess Willard for the heavyweight championship of the world.