Word: cains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make fast an ease and not a difficulty," sensibly exempted the old, the sick, the pregnant, nursing mothers, wayfarers and all who work too hard. And the Prophet told his followers to go ahead and indulge their postponed pleasures after sunset. Consequently many Moslems, particularly wealthy fasters, raise considerable cain through the nights of modern Ramadan...
Elina Sjostedt Tyszecka Cain, second wife of 50-year-old James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice), told a Los Angeles divorce judge that the side-mouth novelist once took her by the arm and threw her "clear across the room. "Writers are funny people," mused Mrs. Cain. She won her divorce...
...story is the Bible, as conceived through the eyes of a backwoods Negro minister. Heaven is a place where good little pickaninnies with wings go to fish fries every day; Cain is a mean, no good, sportin' man who shoots craps and stabs his brother...
...Embezzler and Double Indemnity are stern moral warnings that it is easier to embezzle money than to put it back, to murder husbands than to collect their accident insurance. Both tales are also remarkable examples of the art with which Cain makes unfamiliar readers feel at home in such worlds as banking and insurance, the skill with which he uses business routines to build suspense...
...bank vault, a California spider and a running gun fight. In Double Indemnity a quiet California housewife (with "a shape to set a man nuts") persuades an insurance salesman to collaborate on her husband's murder. And so on-with readers hanging on Cain's hypnotic typewriter...