Word: manless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry (George Sanders) is the kind of man everybody likes and nobody quite respects-a man rendered permanently infantile by his own gentleness, by his family's standing in their small New England town, and above all by his bickering, manless sisters, the widow Hester (Moyna Macgill) and the semi-invalid Lettie (Geraldine Fitzgerald). Lettie in particular takes care that life shall never disturb him with a breath of fresh...
...among the women she writes about. There is hardly a police captain who hasn't talked to, admonished, and reluctantly sent to jail some of the confused little girls caught in raids on cheap hotels. For the chances are there. Said the pert little sprite in San Antonio: "Manless? Are you kidding? As for the girls in my crowd, it's a major one night, a captain another, and cadets and sergeants and corporals and, O Lord, whoever asked that question wasn't thinking about San Antonio...