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...recognize, of course," said the Minister of Transport, "that at first some motorists may, in certain circumstances, sound their horns almost instinctively. ... As a general rule however, if a pedestrian suddenly steps off the pavement in front of a car, the motorist must stop without sounding his horn...
...couple he takes as his victims are model exemplars. Married seven years, childless, increasingly incompatible, John and Mary agree to separate. He is a pedestrian publisher and works while she, a rising actress, sleeps. Two years after their separation each falls in love with somebody else, both want a divorce to remarry. John goes to a friendly lawyer, a divorce specialist. He discovers Britain has three sets of divorce laws, one for England, one for Ireland, one for Scotland. Under English law their only recourse is for him to fake an act of adultery, then let his wife...
...began, fidgeting the while, but the Vagabond had already melted with compassion. He dug deep into his pocket, found the coin, gave it to the old woman, and passed on. Her thanks were a mumbled blessing, and she hurried to recross the street, for there was another pedestrian approaching--A pedestrian whose saddle shoes were new, whose bow tie was immaculate, and whose pockets were, no doubt, deeper...
Charles Coburn, as the Chorus, gives a good, but by no means brilliant performance in a rather colourless part. Mrs. Coburn also does well as Chee Moo, the first wife of Wu Sin Yin the Great. But the whole business is a definitely pedestrian affair. The only really attractive character is Tso (Mary Hutchinson). As the scheming maid she is intriguing...
...formal record of the past,'' is really organized gossip; but among the historians who retail it there are generally more bores than raconteurs. Historian Ralph Roeder is no bore. His crowded subject, the climax of the Italian Renaissance (1494-1530), could easily trip and entangle a pedestrian fact-plodder, but Author Roeder slips adroitly through its thickets, his eye always on one of his relay of four guides (Savonarola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Aretino). Not a portrait of some composite Renaissance man but four overlapping biographies of typical men of the time, The Man of the Renaissance...