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...Mother's House, by Julian Gloag. A little masterpiece of the macabre in which seven London youngsters bury their mother in the garden, clout Dad with a poker, and evolve the forms of a religion based on the dead...
...Mother's House, by Julian Gloag. In a little masterpiece of the macabre, seven London youngsters bury their mother in the garden, clout Dad with a poker, and evolve a religion based on the dead...
...Mother's House, by Julian Gloag. A little masterpiece of the macabre in which seven London youngsters bury their mother in the garden, clout Dad with a poker, and evolve the forms of a religion based on the dead...
...Gabor, doing a TV guest shot with Johnny Carson, was zeroing in on her targets for Tonight: Hollywood Chronicler Sheilah Graham and Hearst Society Scribe Suzy, who often give Zsa Zsa the benefit of a clout. Sheilah pretended she hadn't heard. But not Suzy. "Hungarian blabbermouth," "Fatty," "Miss Tank Town," she wrote. "Zsa Zsa has an age complex, and in her case she has a right to one. I'll spot her ten years. My nose is the one I was born with, and I've never had my face lifted...
...before, the patient gets a preanes-thetic, usually a barbiturate, to quiet him down. In the morning, he may get more of the same, or a morphine-type drug, or both. Next, atropine to help keep mucus from clogging his air passages. In the operating room at last, a clout of barbiturate (often thiopental sodium) to put him to sleep. Then the anesthesiologist rigs the patient with a mask-or, especially for chest operations, a tube inserted through the mouth and down the windpipe. Even that is not all in many cases: an intravenous drug resembling curare (arrow poison) relaxes...