Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never get together if you sit that far apart," he said. "You've got to sit closer and hold hands." Both preserved a stony silence. "You're young and good looking," Giese went on, "and I think you're still in love. Now I been married 26 years and I've got three kids. Sure my wife and I have spats. But one of us always remembers my wife's favorite answer: 'the smartest one always gives up first...
Britons and Americans knew the Russian charges were untrue; but they also sensed last week that the Byrnes-Molotov "debate" (more accurately described as a duet of denunciation) on the Paris conference had put Russia and the West further apart than ever. How serious was the cleavage...
Politically, they were often farther apart than Chicago and New York. While Bertie McCormick loosed isolationist and reactionary thunderbolts from his Midwestern stronghold, Joe Patterson won a reputation as a liberal (liberals were also isolationists then...
Barbara is crazy over horses; Robert likes antiques. Almost against his will, Robert keeps kissing a pretty girl (Diana Lynn) and Barbara is not amused. By reaching greedily for both realism and farce, the picture loses at both ends and rapidly falls apart in all directions. The solemn scenes emerge as tiresomely trivial. The comedy scenes, by contrast, are disquieting: they manage to characterize the hero and heroine as fairly unpleasant young people with oddly frivolous notions about earning a living, adultery, practical joking, simple decency and the training of young children...
...William's whole life fell apart after the trial. Lady Wilde stood by him, but he lost interest in his profession, "became dirtier, uglier, more abrupt" as time went on. He still saw occasional patients: once, unable to find an eye dropper when he was ready to put some lotion in a child's eye, he angrily grabbed a pen from his desk, flicked the lotion in, permanently scarring the eyeball. Dr. Wilson notes that his decline was probably hastened by physical causes as well as mental anguish. It was a steady decline; the end came...