Word: meet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical each week, supervising endless Spanish Fiestas and Greenwich Village Frolics. Mr. Axeler's establishment in Vermont was really more a concentration than a summer camp, with the red-shirted boss terrorizing the staff from horseback and always galloping well out of reach when it came time to meet the payroll. The Mad Cossack even bamboozled his social director out of a wardrobe, so that Hart was reduced to appearing in the dining hall dressed in the camp theater's flyblown, sweat-stained costumes, impersonating Robert E. Lee or Davy Crockett or Napoleon, telling jokes while his stomach...
That Kind of Woman (Ponti-Girosi; Paramount) brings together Sophia Loren and Tab Hunter, although that kind of woman should never be mated with that kind of man. They meet in the club car of a Miami-to-New York train. "He doesn't look old enough to drink," taunts Sophia. The tall towhead leans forward over the table, sternly wobbles his eyeballs, says: "I'm old enough to do anything." Sure enough, the script requires her to pick...
...Author Fleming offers some interesting notes on the curious ways of people who expect to die-but hope to do so as ladies and gentlemen. In 110° heat, the Italian minister dressed for dinner each evening, and the wife of the U.S. minister disclosed that she expected to meet her Maker in her dressing gown "with a pink bow of ribbon at my throat...
...Journey of the Corpse, the hero spends years of his life earning a huge ransom demanded by barbarians for a captured fellow townsman. He deserts his wife and child and starves himself to raise the money. Not until the ransom was paid did the benefactor meet the goad to his sense of sacrifice, a man who had once done him a casual favor...
...husband's absence. The old woman returns her friendship by getting her drunk and pushing her into adultery with a wealthy young merchant. This is one tale that readers of lending-library triangle stories will have no trouble appreciating. The enraged husband divorces his wife; years later they meet again. She is now another man's concubine and he is remarried; but love conquers, they go into a clinch, and all is forgiven. Being a decent chap, the hero keeps his new wife as well...