Word: mister
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is a small town, mister," said the telephone operator in a voice of protest. "This ain't Detroit, you know, and we're all kinda upset ..." But last week Clayton knew in its heart what it had long denied: it harbored poverty, fear, meanness, and the base passions, too. Clayton would not be the same for a long, long time...
There is really nothing strange about the teen-agers of Pleasant Grove, Texas, but they were behaving in a strange way last week. Instead of the usual signs-"Caution-No Brakes" "Don't Laugh Mister. Your Daughter May Be Inside!" -they had daubed their jalopies with the earnest words: "We Want Our Schools." The slogan was cried at special mass meetings, chanted through the streets in impromptu parades. But in spite of all the agitation, the doors of Pleasant Grove's six schools remained firmly closed all week, and no one, from the superintendent on down, seemed...
Time Out for Ginger (by Ronald Alexander) has a pretty familiar setup: a middle-class household of mother, father, outspoken servant and three teen-age girls. The fillip is that the youngest junior miss behaves like a junior mister and goes out for the high-school football team. Father, between having always wanted a son and having recently declaimed in public that the young should be free to do what they want, first sportingly and then stubbornly backs Ginger up. Soon the whole town's talking; next father's job at the bank is endangered. Fortunately Ginger, once...
Bloodhounds of Broadway has some fast Runyonesque patter and a couple of spry tunes. Mitzi Gaynor brings a pert personality and youthful sparkle to her singing, dancing and acting, while the dog stars, Mister and Blondie, a pair of bloodhounds cast in the title roles of Nip & Tuck, are a howl with their own particular brand of doleful dramatics...
...Press Is Notified. A few months ago, when he fell ill of pneumonia, he had his secretary reply to pressmen: "Mister Hughes says you're not to worry. He says that as soon as he's died he'll notify the press...