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...Incest?” said The Stable Boy.“Wivout e’en a peep of a doubt,” replied Oliver K. Swindleton, rubbing his hands together. “Oi could ’ardly believe th’news meself.”The two were seated at their usual table, leaning into the candle that burned weakly in the tavern’s noxious air. Reaching into the pocket of his tattered waistcoat, Ollie produced a letter and held it up between his thumb and forefinger...
...Boches and the Irish Republican Army. Rosy is a willful, discontented lass who scorns the bumptious town boys and chooses by default the widowed, middle-aged teacher. Shaughnessy warns her: "I only taught you about Byron and Beethoven and Captain Blood. I'm not one of them fellows meself." They marry anyway, and her wedding night is your standard virgin v. tired stag disappointment. Neither the audience nor Father Collins can mistake the meaning of her persistent frustrated sighs...
...also got lost. Within an hour five separate search parties were groping helplessly about the field. At long last, a lone motorcyclist loomed out of the mist at the plane's door. "I've found you," he told the passengers cheerfully, "but now I've lost meself." Off he went into the fog again...
...petty crime; yet his meaning, as an embattled young man of his century, has been rather clarified than muddied in the movie. He begins as a cocky, kindly, no-count bum, the best motive for whose footlessness is his dislike for "cheating pennies out of poor devils poorer than meself." When he learns that his Ma (Ethel Barrymore) is soon to die of cancer, he stays home for a change, helping her with her fusty second-hand goods shop, fending off the devotions of a gently Bohemian cellist (Jane Wyatt) and, rather against his will, falling harder & harder...
...Union frowned on sectional representation because it already had 16 members in Parliament, the cabbies overrode him, voted to go ahead. Grunted Spokesman Ted Morland of Fulham: "It's abaht time our ruddy trade got a look in. I wouldn't mind getting on me hind legs meself and telling ol' Winnie wot he ought to do abaht...