Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after all-just "a child Mama had that had not been Papa's." For reasons "we shall never know" Mama had chosen to keep quiet, and to ruin her daughter's happiness. But to bring up all this now would invalidate the insanity plea and Bethel would hang. So Lerryn kept quiet, went insane herself ("she remembers nothing but is quite happy in her little cell"). Some readers may find this book morbid...
Musicals must have a plot on which to hang their tunes and dance numbers. The players go, perforce, through the motions of a lightweight story involving Mature's mink-coated overtures to Betty Grable, the feminine lead of a musical in which he stars. She is married to Mature's sparring partner in the show, but keeps it a secret lest Mature leave the show flat. While the players struggle manfully with the complications this deception causes, several quite bearable dance routines and tunes are introduced. Sparked by Mature as the egocentric fighter, "Footlight Serenade" is altogether a pleasant little...
When an enlisted man drops in at the P-X he can hang around the place, chew the fat of the post, get a copy of True Romances, watch officer's and noncoms' wives come in for meat and groceries, make restrained horseplay with other fellows. There he can buy cigarets, souvenir ash trays, candy, razor blades, gasoline, Sunday uniforms-more than 6,000 items...
...Dream. In Manhattan, Vincent Newman perched on a fence, a rope around his neck, told police he hoped to fall asleep and hang himself...
This is a story of a girl who learns, through a series of harsh disillusionments, that what she called "clinging to her ideals" was really a mulish effort to hang on to a happy childhood. As a first novel (winner of the Avery Hopwood Award) it is mature and thoughtful, except in technique. In it drinks are always "refreshing," blouses are always "dainty." The story accumulates as undramatically as polyps on a coral reef, but in the end it makes a pretty fair shipwreck...