Word: erful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disgustingly grubby, ill-lit, reeking of soggy cigar butts, garlic, and rancid butter. Set apart from the armpit set at the counter is a wizened skeleton of a man, with stubble on his cheeks and liquor dripping from his chin. This is Nomily Crass, pauper, sot, ne'er-do-well, and uncouth to the core. His friends call him Slum...
Maybe that's not the way it happened, but the fact remains that Goldilocks is now very much among us. And for a second-rate musical it isn't bad, its first flush of banality being somewhat sicklied o'er by the pale cast of good taste, funny lines, and money...
...er Whitehall...
...bring back the lads off the beaches. Sorry day for Blighty, all right. Only one boat makes it across without bein' blown up, and when she gets there, this 'ere corporal and 'is five men 'itch a ride 'ome off 'er without hardly any of the other 100,000 poor bleeders on the beach even stirrin' off their arsenal...
...husband views the masterpiece she will wear to her job as secretary in an advertising office, he says: "Some day you ought to sign it, like Renoir or Picasso." Honeyed Promises. In millions of homes across the U.S. last week, millions of women celebrated similar rites in great er or lesser degree, intent on enhancing nature's boon or correcting its defects...