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Other impressions of Every Day's A Holiday: snowy-haired Charles Winninger in typical foxy grandpa mood, Negro Swing-Trumpeter Louis Armstrong leading a torchlight procession, the plushy mustiness of the turn of the century, and a few gags, all mothered and murmured by Miss West. Typical examples: Q. "You mean he made love to you?'' A. "Well, he went through all the emotions. . . ." "Keep a diary and some day it'll keep you. . . ." "She's not as strait-laced as she's laced...
...trouble all started when Grandma died. It hurt me so for Grandpa not to see her. I remember well (though I was only a little tyke at the time) his last words as he left. "I hope you croak," he cooed broken-heartedly, "and I hope it's me as does it." And then for all these years he's never come back. And Grandma lay there on the bed, snarling so patiently, biting me, biting the doctor, even biting the bedposts for practice. I did so want for Grandpa to come home...
...Spring, never be able to lean out of her sunny window and spit at the children in the park again. She was growing visibly weaker, and began to miss the doctor with the chamber-pot almost every other visit. There was only one bed left in the house. And Grandpa never did come...
...after it was all over, I did as I knew Grandpa would have had me do. And the medical school did pay elegant...
...know why I write you all this, but I sure am worried about what to do with the money. If I should spend it Grandpa might come back and get me mixed up with Grandma (he always was kind of absent-minded and I sure would be sorry. You don't know is he dead? Kindly, Helen Fernal...