Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Micellany. In lola, Kans., Richard Tobey by experiment proved to his own satisfaction that mice preferred bread to bacon, bacon to cheese...
...committee's mice-like labors had brought forth a mountain of confusion. The chairman, bulb-nosed, tobacco-chawin', houn'-dog-lovin' Henry Bascom Steagall of Ozark, Ala. had shown no disposition to hurry price-control legislation until the cotton-marketing season was over. The farm bloc, in complete control of the committee, had searched long and skillfully for a formula which would substantially inflate all farm prices, had finally found it: a ceiling on farm prices may not be set below the highest of these three levels: 1) 110% of parity; 2) the average price from...
...pastor himself soon discovers that "poor as church mice" is an apt description. When the family larder is down to non-subsistive proportions, he writes a sermon on the five loaves and two fishes, in the desperate hope that someone in the congregation will be bright enough to take the hint and invite the family to dinner. He visits the marriage-license bureau, hoping to turn an honest wedding fee (generally...
Moon Over Miami (20th Century-Fox) is a melancholy musical whose principals pass most of their Technicolored time between numbers bemoaning their poverty. It was happier three years ago as a movie called Three Blind Mice...
...mice in this version are blonde, lithe Carole Landis, and blonder, plumper Betty Grable, cast as leggy cheesecake queens of a Texas highway hot-dog stand, who try to parlay a small legacy into a millionaire husband. Unfortunately, their daily double (Don Ameche) is scratched. He was a millionaire until his family business folded, day before yesterday...