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...Housebroken Suburbanites. Wilson's chronicle of his mythical county is a series of portraits of the demi-suburbanites who live amphibiously between heavily housebroken country and a U.S. metropolis (New York City). Unlike pudgy Author Wilson, the nameless narrator is a tall, slim analyst of the influence of social and economic conditions on painting. His neighbors and their doings are also imaginary, despite unmistakable glints and graftings of a well-known U.S. critic, a well-known radio commentator, an up & coming publishing house, a famed literary magazine and book club...
...course, they will have to be housebroken to American Weekly ways," says slim, smart Martin J. ("Mike") Porter, who is only the third editor in the Weekly's 49 lurid years - and who is also, in print and flamboyant illustration, quite a few light years ahead of the scientists...
...Fields), who becomes housekeeper to a wealthy grouch (Monty Woolley), fires his crooked servants, reconciles him with his sensitive son (Roddy McDowall), and comically disposes of his renegade wife (Doris Lloyd), who has returned to make trouble. At picture's end she has him so sweetened up and housebroken that he sits with her in the kitchen late of an evening, singing a pretty, foolish little song which advises you to eat when you're hungry, and sleep when you're tired, but never to stop breathing or you'll be dead...
...Housebroken. In Buffalo, Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Delaney returned from a party, found a stranger asleep in their bed, noted that the intruder had also used Mr. Delaney's toothbrush and hair tonic...
...disgust), by shaking, sometimes by beating. Training is made more difficult by the fact that Japanese babies are habitually overfed (which Gorer thinks may account for Japanese grownups' lack of interest in food and ability to get along on small rations). Nonetheless, a baby is almost invariably perfectly housebroken by the time he can toddle...