Word: housebroken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study medicine, but he admits to having been a naturalist since his school days. His parents started it by putting up with destructive pets. Later his wife learned to live with cockatoos that ate the buttons off the week's wash, and geese that were never quite housebroken. These creatures had free run of the household while Dr. Lorenz studied them with infinite patience...
Wearing a mannish hairdo, Joan Crawford plays the overneat Harriet Craig with sexy emphasis. As her thoroughly housebroken husband, Wendell Corey is careful never to drop ashes on the rugs, sit on the arm of the sofa, or put a damp glass on an end table. Besides riding herd on Corey, Joan bullies her servants, snipes at the inoffensive widow next door, tries to break up K.T. Stevens' romance with William Bishop. Her ineffectual villain'es come to a head when, to prevent her husband's going alone to Japan on business, she defames...
...careful detailing of modern packinghouse procedures, Authors Towne and Wentworth attempt to lift their hero out of the sty and onto the pedestal. A pig, they say, can swim, pull a small cart, even substitute for a bird dog or a child's pony. And he can be housebroken : "By nature he is one of the cleanest of animals...