Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children by a previous marriage. Lucy Malcolmson broke into tears, switched to a joyous laugh. Gathering up his honey-haired new wife, ex-movie actress Frances Baker, Pappy limped glumly past Lucy, muttered, "Congratulations." Said Mrs. Boyington: "I hope you enjoyed the money." Said Lucy: "Sorry it had to happen...
Lecture. When the police took over, Roumeguere was suspect No. 1. He went on a hunger strike to sharpen his wits, parried all questions with ease. Then he lectured his interrogators on Existentialism. "How does it happen," the police commissioner bellowed, "that you know such crazy people?" Said Roumeguere: "I am a psychiatrist. It is my business to know crazy people. But how about the people you associate with? Aren't most of them criminals?" In a few days, Roumeguere was turned loose...
Like other Indian leaders, Jinnah denounced the "fratricidal war." But most observers wondered how Jinnah could fail to know what would happen when he called for "direct action." Shortly before the riots broke out, his own news agency (Orient Press) reported that Jinnah, anticipating violence, was sleeping on the floor these nights-to toughen up for a possible sojourn in jail...
...picture itself may give a clearer idea than all this of why such things happen, but only under the most patient analysis. Actually, the plot's crazily mystifying, nightmare blur is an asset, and only one of many. By far the strongest is Bogart, who can get into a minor twitch of the mouth the force of a slug from an automatic. Another is Producer-Director Howard Hawks's fellow feeling for the Chandler world: even on the chaste screen Hawks manages to get down a good deal of the glamorous tawdriness of big-city low life, discreetly...
...astonished at the friendliness of average people. "They send you flowers and cake and never say who it is from." At Maxwell Field, Alabama, she had an experience that amazed her: the commanding general conducted her all over the air base. In Russia it just couldn't happen to a stranger, let alone a foreigner. Said she: "General, aren't you afraid I might be a Russian...