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...Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin, and pauper-poor is S. J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
Trouble was that the girl friend had a sister, as cute a kleptomaniac as ever lifted a handbag. When Ben first saw her he simply said: "You're bad." She "licked her lips," and answered: "You're bad, too." "We're both bad," said Ben happily and switched sisters...
...building trains undergraduate Morse Code classes in less than half the time expected by the Army and Navy, maintains facilities for physiological research at the east end. Graduate and undergraduate thesis-writers here are each charged with the welfare and guidance of from twenty to a hundred or more cute rodents. They feed them, pet them, train them, and give them cerebral lesions. Sometimes a rat bites a student, but the average rat is a pretty good egg. They sit up in humanoid poses, coyly cock their wee heads, and squeak in unison in the darkened cages. Millions...
...other hands "The Damask Check" might be coy and cute. It is not. It might be patronizing, heavy, and dull. It is not. It might be warn, humorous, graceful, and satisfying...
...Dennis (Mickey Rooney) is as American as Peck's Bad Boy, and a good deal noisier. He did not want to go to Eton, but when his mother (Marta Linden) marries an Englishman (Ian Hunter) Timothy can't escape it. Right off he makes friends with a cute little Lord (Raymond Severn), whom he calls Inky, and an enemy of Ronnie Kenvil (Peter Lawford). Tim's stepbrother Peter (Freddie Bartholomew) tries to arbitrate, but Tim doesn't like Peter either. By the end of term he has democratically banged his head against every Eton tradition. Between...