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...young, it was the wrong man: a gambler, a roué, diseased. To her family Nasa put up a falsetto front, but when her husband divorced her about the time the U. S. declared war on Germany, she went to Manhattan, amused herself with many a departing soldier, gob and leatherneck. She further amused herself by sending her ex-husband a memento of each occasion. When her mother began to die, Nasa went home. As you leave her she has not taken on anybody new, but there is someone in the offing...
...Navy drags. The dialog is the sort in which effects are concentrated in the word "Yeah" and while Bow gives a good performance Frederic March, who plays opposite her, is better suited in drawing room dramas. Real sailors will writhe with rage at his interpretation of a gob. Best shot: marriage episode in a Tia Juana dance hall where the proprietor has offered a prize of $100 to any couple marrying on the premises...
...Well, what of it?" said the surly plasterer, dropping an extra-large gob...
...gob of road tar is a morsel which children like to chew. Tar contains dirt, of course, and poisons with terrific names like creosote, benzene, cyclohexane, anthracene, dianthracene, toluene, pyridine, amylene, methyl cyanide, carbon bisulphide. Tar-chewing children should be warned by the disaster which overtook a man tarring an Ohio road. As a case of industrial toxicology, the American Medical Association considered it important enough to publish in its Journal...
...Making of Americans, Geography and Plays, A Birthday Book, As a Wife Has a Cow, Tender Buttons. Her letter head carries a figure like a fleur de Us and underneath "It's a rose, it's a rose, it's a rose." A large rose gob is her seal. She is a sister of Leo Stein, famed art critic, with whom she is not on speaking terms...