Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incessant Washington rumor that accused FBI of collecting secret dossiers on most of official Washington, snarled: "The FBI cooperates with police departments which tap wires of family telephones and even, in one incredible case . . . took phonograph records and moving pictures, on suspicion, of conversations and scenes within the bedroom of husband and wife...
...Vacationing in Massachusetts, the President's personal secretary, Miss Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, gave her reasons for wanting a Third Term: she likes 1) her $5,000-per-year job; 2) her White House apartment (bedroom, living room, bath...
Native Son tells the story of a "bad nigger," coal-black, 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, who lives with his pious mother, a mild sister and brother in a one-bedroom tenement apartment on Chicago's South Side. In a flawlessly keyed first scene Bigger smashes a rat with a skillet, frightening his sister into a faint. Sullen and sassy through breakfast, he begs the last quarter in the house, joins his poolroom pals to plan a delicatessen stickup. Instead, getting cold feet, he picks a fight with them. Bigger and his pals play a game of mimic called...
About four that morning Bigger murders Mary in her bedroom, carries her downstairs in a trunk, burns her body in the furnace, conceives an alibi to implicate her Communist lover. Bigger's explanation to himself is that the murder was an accident, would not have happened if she had not passed out on rum. Shortly before he is caught in a rooftop chase he murders his girl Bessie with a brick, throws her down an airshaft...
...sassy Nancy Kelly after forty-five minutes of night clubs, racetracks, and Mary Boland's screwy country villa. In the course of the action Miss Kelly manages to appear in a nightgown twice, once in her chemise, with a bathing-suit shot in for good measure. There are numerous bedroom scenes in which Joel McCrea impersonates a mouse, a rat, and a sleep-walker. His hiding places are, respectively, the closet, underneath the bed, and the bathroom. To fill in the dull moments there are a Yoga, an English butler, Cesar Romero, and Mary Boland. Cesar Romero's typical line...