Word: grandpop
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...Grandpop," said little George, age ten, as he put down the old man's Class Album, "didn't your classmates at Harvard have any sex life? Where were your hormones...
...Grandpop," said George, "Mr. Cottle told us in school yesterday that young men who have passed the age of fourteen either make a vital issue of sex or get neurotic. In my perusal of 'The Truth About '40' in this book I find cross-correlations between family backgrounds and the number of straight scotches per week you fellows used to put down the hatch, but no mention of sex. What's the story? Were you all neurotic...
...Curry kills herself to make her husband sorry, the circumstances implicate the husband as murderer. When the witnesses come up, each discovers that he has something embarrassing to conceal. Several little harmless perjuries make an airtight case for the prosecution. But at last simple hearts in the persons of Grandpop Strawn and a bootlegger enter as surprise, witnesses and tell the truth, which sounds entirely incredible against the massed perjuries of Glenwood Park. So they perjure themselves, too, and so credibly that the prisoner is discharged. The Night of June 13, written by Vera Caspary. is bitter against meddling women...
...fellow he really is. He made faces, explaining that he can look like Benito Mussolini and then, in a jiffy, look like his benevolent self. He pulled out his watch, said goodbye; and the audience felt sure that it had been fondled on the knee of a Great Old Grandpop...
...into a "lift," Lift your "topper," Be polite, Like your grandpop and your popper. No matter if the dame Is a "wild one" or a "tame," Lift you "dicer" just the same...