Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entrance into high society. In this Miss Harris was perfect. Her conversation and accent, a mixture of her own flower-girl experience and the teaching of Professor Higgins, carried the one-sided conversation to a hilarious and colorful climax. She was ably assisted in this by Olive Dunbar as Mrs. Eynsford Hill, and Joyce Ebert as her daughter, whose wonderful indignant facial expression added a great deal of amusement to the overall scene. Cavada Humphrey, as Higgins' mother, played the Victorian matriarch to the hilt. Higgins' colleague, Pickering, was adroitly played by Robert Blackburn...
...auto showroom. There she rammed her Chevy through a 3-by-10-foot plate-glass window and right into the side of a shiny black $6,000 Lincoln Continental. Damages: $2,300 to the building and the Continental, $1,000 to the Chevy, a cut lip for Mrs. Norman. The enraged company manager signed a complaint charging Mrs. Norman with malicious mischief. She posted $400 bail, airily said Metro could "go ahead, sue, I'm broke," and went back to work. First contributors to a Norman legal-defense fund: a group of anonymous "auto salesmen" who sent $15, hoped...
...Jenkins, the novel's narrator and a movie scriptwriter (as Powell himself once was), whose humor is a soft blackjack. When Widmerpool asks him what would be a suitable name under which to register for a "clandestine weekend" at a country hotel, Jenkins replies: "Mr. and the Honourable Mrs. Smith...
...Dayton, when a judge told Guillermo Angel Valerin that his fine for drunk and disorderly conduct would be "diez y ocho dólares y sesenta centavos" ($18.60), Mrs. Valerin said: "I'm sorry, judge, but we'd understand you much better if you spoke English...
Something Borrowed. In Portland, Ore., Mrs. Frank Rose Jr. had her husband thrown in jail after she spotted a picture in the paper that showed him cutting a wedding cake with his new bride...