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Back in 1931, however, when Bodenheim was coming into his own as a literary maverick, New York publisher Horace Liveright issued his novel— Naked on Roller Skates . The title is a grabber, but the book itself would be anathema to feminists since it features a heroine who wishes to be beaten and degraded:
(This was the creation of the German financier and Central Banker, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht.)
Thanks in part to his "wandering eye and wickie-wickie ways," he has lost his wife, Jessie (Farrah Fawcett), and two children (he calls them his "beauties") to Horace (Todd Allen), a gentle, callow minister who seems to be, in every way, Sonny's opposite.
Some other Johnnies neglected by quiz participants--Johnny Angel (Shelley Fabares), Johnny One Note (Rodgers and Hart), Johnny Too Bad (a swell song from The Harder They Come ), and this line of dialogue from the 1959 racially charged English murder mystery Sapphire , spoken, if I recall correctly, by Horace Big Cigar (Robert Adams): "We got plenty Johnnies, boss."
The NYT notes that Ruff worked in references to peace in the Middle East and that Henry Hyde dipped into Henry V's Agincourt speech, as well as quotations from de Gaulle, Septimius Severus, Horace Mann, Edward Gibbon and Saul Bellow.