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...think this step will make you frown...
...date, strolls off. Police spot him, give chase. Loses them in subway, goes to a men's room. Man washing hands. Punk slugs him, empties his pockets. Girl goes home, finds him in her bed. "Why did you come?" "To sleep with you." He does. She, with a frown: "I'm pregnant." He: "If these were another man's hands, would you care?" She: "Have you read Dylan Thomas?" To bed again. Out again. Steals a car. Police again. Hides with American girl in borrowed flat. More lovemaking. Later she impulsively calls police, betrays him. He couldn...
When Andrew G. Jameson, Senior Tutor of Adams House, was informed of the prospect, a worried frown crossed his brow. After suggesting that his pool might be too small, he asked "Would you have to change the water every time they got through...
...them from cheaper foreign oil. Such regulatory groups as the Texas Railroad Commission make a concerted effort to prevent flooded markets by limiting production (a method that has prevented any real oil glut in the U.S.), thus in effect helping to keep up prices. The foreign oil-producing nations frown on price cuts, which nip at oil profits. Venezuela recently stopped three U.S. independents from selling Lake Maracaibo crude at $1.50 to $2 per bbl. when the posted price...
...employees of Alfred A. (for Abraham) Knopf, a publisher with the appearance and manner of a retired Cossack sergeant, recall that on the frequent occasions when Knopf was displeased, he would rumble: "If this keeps up, I'm going to sell to Bennett Cerf." At last, without a frown, Knopf has sold. The price, according to Random House President Cerf: in the neighborhood of 135,000 shares of Random House stock, worth roughly $3,000,000. Knopf and his wife Blanche, an aloof, astringent woman who is the firm's president (her husband is chairman), will still...