Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horace started poor, but from the beginning he knew how to climb to wealth and power over the necks of women. Back in Cambridge, Mass., some 30 years in the past, he stole Vic's girl (Diana Lynn) and got his start in her father's business. He jilted her when he met rich, well-connected Martha Vickers, and began to make his way as a financier. Thus established, he cut Martha adrift and set out to break the trickiest operator on the Street (Sydney Greenstreet), using, as his ally, Sydney's bored wife (Lucille Bremer). Then...
...night of the big peace party, it looks as if he might steal Vic's new girl (again Diana Lynn). In spite of Louis and Sydney and Lucille, who are all present, and in spite of all the flashbacks, the girl finds Horace strangely fascinating and she seems willing to elope on his yacht. However, vengeful melodrama comes to bat, wickedness receives its long-deferred reward, and the world is made safe for doormats of good will like...
...decorator (Robert Walker) melts the cold marble into ardent flesh. The living Venus has arms and some interesting ideas about using them. Her timid swain is mainly interested in 1) persuading her to go back to work as an objet d'art, and 2) placating his landlady, his girl and his boss...
...likely site, blew up a cathedral which was in the way-only to find that the ground they had chosen was too swampy to support the projected building. All work had to be abandoned, cranes and tools were left to rust. When Welles told these facts to a Russian girl, she said bitterly: "You are trying to blacken our dreams...
Previously, a student wishing to bring a girl friend to the game had to turn in his season cheering section ticket and buy a pair of ducats outside the all-male section. Thus, if he brought a woman to every football game in his four college years, he would never get a better seat than the 28-yard line...