Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Male War Bride. (20th Century-Fox) is a bedroom farce with a scattering of laughs which are muffled by as thick a mixture of stale crumbs and old chestnuts as Hollywood has ever stuffed into a high-priced turkey...
...fleet-tongued, fleet-footed samlor (pedicab) boys wheel them off to the Cathay Night Club, where they jitterbugged the night away with wriggly Siamese taxi dancers. (Lest the visitors get any improper ideas, signs at their hotels informed them sternly: "It is forbidden to entertain lady guests in the bedroom without permission of the management...
...Syrian army officers rolled through the deserted streets of Damascus, stopped at the home of Syria's dictator, short, stumpy Husni Zaim. The officers awakened Marshal Zaim, told him he was under arrest. Then they sped to the home of bespectacled Premier Mohsen el Barazi, burst into his bedroom, took him from the house in his pajamas. Within the hour, a drumhead court-martial had sentenced both to death. As the sun rose, they were executed by a firing squad in the Mezze Prison...
...prospect of dividing up something less than $7,000, before taxes. Biggest chunk of cash came from the sale of a Chrysler sedan for $2,300. An auction of a large part of the loot (a living room suite, three rugs, a TV set, "$1,000 worth" of books, bedroom furniture, a diamond ring, wrist watch and assorted luggage), all of which was valued at nearly $9,000, brought in about $3,000. The syndicate would also be well-clad for a while: a Chicago tailoring firm had agreed to make up $1,000 worth of men's & women...
...found an entry: Dined C. D. evening. Party. Nuff Said. To Henry, Nuff Said meant wickedly delightful. Reveling in his betrayal, Henry manufactured situations to throw Madge and Diver together. He faked a business trip and returned unexpectedly to find somebody's cigarette in Madge's bedroom (the window cleaner's, she said). In a little notebook he carefully wrote down all his "evidence...