Word: mutterances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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listen to the holy mutter of the Mass And see God made and eaten every...
...Vagabond lifted his arms off the blankets and prepared to strike, but they fell limp at his sides. He was only able to mutter. "If you're O. O. Mclntyre, get the hell out of here!" The voice stopped short, the clouds floated up towards the roof of the ambulance, and a new face appeared. This was a woman's face, round, with tightly pursed lips. "Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable...
...acidities of Edna May Oliver. The plot: Robert Montgomery, non-marrying lady-killer, is talked into marrying Joan Crawford. Because he cannot stop lady-killing, Joan piously makes him an apparent cuckold in public. This reforms him and, in what passes for high breeding in Hollywood, these two snarl, mutter, sneer, whine, shout their love at one another...
...office and a city street. Time is an evening in February 1933, just before the bank moratorium. Doomed hero is one McGafferty, No. 1 Banker of the U. S. While his office ticker stutters its frantic news of crashing banks, riots, panic, and the crowds in the street mutter their comment, McGafferty faces a conference of frightened bankers, tries to bully them into a pool. While their conference is going on a group of unemployed, led by a blind man, breaks into the office. McGafferty defies them; the bankers cower. But the blind leader reads McGafferty aright, tells...
...prima donnas have superstitions and Lotte Lehmann is no exception. In her dressing-room she keeps photographs of "mein Vater, meine Mutter, mein Mann und mein Bruder Fritz." She kisses them all and takes a nip of sherry before she goes on stage. For the rest her entourage consists of three stuffed animals: a brown plush dog, a fluffy white cat which holds a lorgnette, a horrid-looking dachshund made of sea shells. Her enthusiasms in the U. S. are for Greta Garbo's cinemas and "the rubberneck busses" which go through San Francisco's Chinatown...