Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kids?" it sneered almost viciously. Oh. Vag had forgotten. Yes, there was the Wellesley apparition to be considered, loved, fed, and--he winced as he recalled her Dache millinery--perhaps even clothed. Kids? They do come, but you don't have to have 'em. Of course, the perfect mate, as she was going to be, would never mind living in tatters if civilization and humanity were to be served. But then, it was possible that she wouldn't look as well in rags as she did in her Cashmere sweater and Trimingham's sport skirt. For a wild moment...
...Betty Grable's understudy, a blondy, Albertina Rasch alumna named Ruth Farm; and a tall, taffy-haired trouper named Ann Graham, from Birmingham, Ala. Ann, the chattier, said she had sung with Goodman and Vallée, aimed at musicomedy stardom and then marriage with a theatre-world mate. Said velvety Ann, discouraging any number of unseen stage-door Johnnies: "You know the average businessman can't afford to stay up as late...
...kids?" it sneered almost viciously. Oh. Vag had forgotten. Yes, there was the Wellesley apparition to be considered, loved, fed, and--he winced as he recalled her Dache millinery--perhaps even clothed. Kids? They do come, but you don't have to have 'em. Of course, the perfect mate, as she was going to be, would never mind living in tatters if civilization and humanity were to be served. But then, it was possible that she wouldn't look as well in rags as she did in her Cashmere sweater and Trimingham's sport skirt. For a wild moment...
...Boss, (benign even when KB-QB4, and QXBP, for a Scholar's Mate) runs his Association with an iron hand, withholding & dispensing patronage (honorary offices) as shrewdly as a Cabinet officer...
...least nothing is left out. First there is the stock shot of the Manharian sky-line. Then the murder, the sirens and the police-radio, the scene in the D. A.'s office with the reporters. After a short sequence in the jail with the stircrazy cell-mate, the court-room scene begins. It involves a dead-locked jury and a new witness before everything winds up happily, the mystery is unraveled, and the newspaper headlines proclaim the verdict. Amazingly enough, "The Man Who Wouldn't Talk" turns out to be fair entertainment. The plot may unfold slowly...