Mild mannered zoology professor Dr. David Huxley is excited by the news that an intercostal clavicle bone has been found to complete his...
Mild mannered zoology professor Dr. David Huxley is excited by the news
that an intercostal clavicle bone has been found to complete his
brontosaurus skeleton, a project four years in the construction. He is
equally excited about his imminent marriage to his assistant, the
officious Alice Swallow, who is interested in him more for his work than
for him as a person. David needs the $1 million endowment of wealthy
dowager Mrs. Carleton Random to complete the project. Her lawyer,
Alexander Peabody, will make the decision on her behalf, so David needs
to get in his favor. However, whenever David tries to make a good
impression on Peabody, the same young woman always seems to do something
to make him look bad. She is the flighty heiress Susan Vance. The more
David wants Susan to go away, the more Susan seems not to want or be
able to. But David eventually learns that Alexander Peabody is her good
friend, who she calls Boopy, and Susan's Aunt Elizabeth, with whom David
has also made a ...
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