Word: fianc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Kirby, sweating painfully, tries explaining about the bees and flowers. By the time Fiancée Pamela expels Ginger from the school, she has learned a lot about boys, won the Major from Pamela...
...self-deceit teases off the denouement to a point where New Year bells are ringing, a strike boils over, a greathearted young organizer is killed by his own men, and Emily learns not only to hear again but to realize that she has been trying to shackle an unwilling fiancé with her deafness...
Bette bounds off with Olivia's husband (Dennis Morgan), leaving a fiancé (George Brent) in her wake, bounds right back after her catch has killed himself. When it becomes apparent that nothing much is ever going to come of all this sound and fury over a tyrannical child, Our Life curls up its toes and subsides. Miss Davis, fleeing from a manslaughter rap for running over a child, wrecks her car and dies...
...CALLING-Helen McCloy- Morrow ($2). Unidentified telephone messages tell the chorus girl fiancée of a well-born young Marylander to stay away from the family mansion or else. A murder follows and Basil Willing delves into abnormal psychology to bring up the slayer. Scientifically sound, deductively excellent...
DEATH TURNS THE TABLES-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). A capital battle of wits between gruff old Dr. Fell and a nimble adversary over who killed the rapscallion fiancé of an English jurist's daughter. Doesn't quite come off, but good reading for those who like the puzzle type of story...