Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characters scattered about for various reasons, and some of them detract considerably from the fun. George Cole is unnecessarily tedious as a naive vacuum cleaner salesman, and Jill Adams's prettiness does not hide her bland acting as a bride-to-be with whom Cole gets entangled under a bed...
Selma, a schoolteacher, is almost 30 and so hungry for a husband that she breaks the boardinghouse rules and is caught reading the funnies to mousy Mr. Ingham-in Mr. Ingham's bed. But before Selma can say "I do," the landlady, who is 25 years mate-hungrier than the schoolteacher, baits her own sex lines and reels in the poor bachelor. And so it goes. Though his bawdy and sole theme is sex, Author Caldwell tells his tales with an easy colloquial style and the born storyteller's gift of making the reader want to know what...
Only Janet Ward, as the frustrated wife of an impotent cripple, acts with any skill in snaring Miss Lonelyhearts in his own bed...
...post office at 6:15 a.m. and work until 2:45 p.m. with a half hour off for lunch. "You're supposed to sit on the curbstone and eat your lunch," he laments. He also must get up at 5 in the morning, which means he goes to bed at 9 every night so he can get enough rest...
...rest of The Man Who Presumed tells the fabulous schoolboy stories of Stanley's later explorations of Equatorial Africa-stirring tales of hardship and struggle, replete with flying spears, poisoned arrows, and many a gentle rebuke from Stanley's elephant gun. Before Stanley died peacefully in bed in 1904, he seemed compelled again and again to try to re-enact his first and greatest triumph. He was a one-man missing-persons bureau when he went after Emin Pasha (real name: Eduard Schnitzer), German-born governor of a British-controlled province in the Sudan. The Pasha had been...