Word: hour-and-a-half
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...First thing Wayfarer Aherne knows he has become the family's handsome, clean-shaven chauffeur; next thing he knows, the roving eye of Daughter Constance Bennett has lit up, too, and he becomes the centre of as stormy a family ruckus as ever squalled. Before its capricious hour-and-a-half is over, Merrily We Live whisks up a first-rate cast (Alan Mowbray, Clarence Kolb, Bonita Granville, Patsy Kelly), deposits them in a neat row leading straight to its sure-fire climax...
...fell, Agent Kelly jumped on his legs & feet, Regan on his head; that the two men waited for the police only after heated persuasion by witnesses: that at the station house where Mueller was first taken he was cursed by policemen, buffeted about, refused medical treatment for an hour-and-a-half. Agents' defense: they had been acting on an anonymous letter (which they did not produce at the hearing). They are held for second-degree murder, released on $7,500 bail...
...gruelling hour-and-a-half scrimmage in which the fast-stepping backs of the varsity shone, wound up the football practice at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, and the Jayvees were left on the tail end of a 24-0 score...
...been served only one course of the dinner. The Times-Star reporter, a Rhodes scholar, left in a huff. Nevertheless all three papers obediently reported only the chit-chat of the event on their society pages next day, mentioned only the title of Sir Frederick's hour-and-a-half address...
...Iowa Farmers' Union, in convention at Des Moines, by a resolution passed immediately after an hour-and-a-half Hooverizing address by U. S. Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart...