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...stage is set for an out-of-the-corner-of-the-mouth-remark from Bogart. And she doesn't need the content of those lines to make the audience groan; her first speech consists of "Anybody got a cigarette?", and half the audience expects Humphrey to pull out a carton of Camels...
...down. In Manhattan probably 20 to 25% of all the cigarets for civilians were moving through the black market. Result: many a smoker was glad to pay 50? for a 17? pack of cigarets, more than glad when a black marketeer gave him a chance at a carton...
...rage and stamp on its head"). She commiserated with Mrs. Hoare, whose daughter had married a Dutchman and borne nothing but girls ("It's something to do with Princess Juliana, I always think," said Mrs. Hoare). She won over the snooty servants and even conquered Oxonian Misogynist Professor Carton, who had hitherto believed that all bluestockings wore raincoats and sang in the Bach choir. After 300 such leisurely pages Author Thirkell ties up the loose ends in a neat bow, marries the right people to the right sort, saves the family mansion and forgives a few of the lower...
...small-town girl (Jean Sullivan). At last Flynn and Lukas decide that they are Frenchmen even more than murderer and plain-clothes man. The ethical problem is solved and the picture ended in what readers of A Tale of Two Cities will recognize as a brisk burst of Sydney Carton...
Dorothy Lamour received a letter from a Czechoslovakian soldier stationed in Great Britain: "I love you very much. I dream about you every night. Please send me a carton of American cigarets...