Big Hearted Herbert (1934)

Guy Kibbee: Herbert 'Big-Hearted' Kalness

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• Herbert Kalness : [Resisting the suggestion that his son go to college instead of going to work at Kalness' factory]  I never saw a college man yet who was worth his salt - freshman year or any other year!

  Goodrich Sr. : Aren't you being a bit severe on colleges, Mr. Kalness?

  Herbert Kalness : "Colleges"? We don't have 'em any more. Big athletic institutions. Football teams. Baseball teams. Crews, swimmers, hockey players. Tiddlywinks teams for all I know. Careening around the country to get their pictures in the paper!

• Herbert Kalness : A parasite. One of the leeches who fatten on the backbone of the country.

  Elizabeth : How do you fatten on a backbone, Herbert?

• Herbert Kalness : If that sappy lawyer was worth the retaining fee I paid him, he'd have told that income tax man today where to head in. As it is, I have to pay the government every cent I owe them.

• Herbert Kalness : A fine example of college straining. Studied four years to become a moron.

  Elizabeth : You don't have to study for that. You never went to college.

• Herbert Kalness : College men! Idlers! Loafers! Wasters! That's all colleges turn out nowadays!