Word: chums
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...Chum. There were more quarrels with Lilli, and trial separations. "Let's face it," Lilli says, "Englishmen don't like women, at least not in the way that Italians or Frenchmen like women. Englishmen don't ever really look at a woman. The greatest compliment Rex can pay me is to say that being with me is as good as being with a pal. He's a man's man, an Englishman...
...work of a British attorney who has published five volumes of verse, attempts to be both a novel of character and a novel of suspense, is above average in both categories. The plot: a second-rate novelist begins a mild investigation into the disappearance of an old school chum and gradually finds himself being followed, spied on, threatened with death. The shabbier fringes of London's literary life are convincingly drawn, and the ending is a real shocker...
...action begins when Bogart, as an army captain, attempts to discover why his army buddy was killed. Noble Humphrey not only finds the killers, but also his dead chum's true love, night club singer Lizabeth Scott. He likes the way she sings. That she talks like a hoarse Lauren Bacall and sings like a wounded sea lion does not deter our boy Bogart...
...film begins as the clipper sets out to sea. First off, the crew must "scoop" for "chum," i.e., make a haul for anchovetas, to be used for bait. When at last the net makes a full purse, the ship heads for fishing grounds. A few days later, the porpoise shoal and the water birds fluster wildly overhead-the signs of tuna below...
...clipper races in, the chum begins to fly. The high-booted fishermen stand precariously in shallow metal scuppers that hang like balconies over the water, and they wield stout poles from which dangle a short line and a large bare hook. The tuna flash up to take the chum, and many get a hook instead. In hook, out fish, in hook, out fish-the work falls quickly into a pounding rhythm that maddens the blood like drums. The deck-holes are filling fast with 20-pounders that flail like thunder as the blood-mist steams above their thousand throes...