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...seen as pompous, competent in a petty way and callous. Sue Kaufman's Diary of a Mad Housewife, a shrewd and graceful comedy, shows an ambitious lawyer husband telephoning orders to his shaking wife, who has just nearly been mugged, about packing his suitcase: "Have you got a pencil? I want my tan cowhide two-suiter, not the one from Mark Cross, the new one from T. Anthony. Then I'll need two suits-the gray Glen-plaid Dacron-and-worsted from Brooks, and the oxford-gray basket-weave polyester-worsted from Press. Then six ties, use your...
...marriage; it treats those already won over like fools, and those to be won over like queens for a day. When they thought I was a voter. I was inundated with "Endicott Peabody for Vice Pres... Vance Hartke, champion of social sec...George make American happen ag...Trust Muskie...pencil to write in Mills...right this way...Sam's the Man...re-elect...
...beauty parlor, a bet taker at a London bookmaking shop, a salesman of nudie films, a shorthand typist, a paint stripper, a bric-a-brac salesman at the Chelsea antique market, and an interior decorator. He has also been unemployed. But all that was before he met a pencil-thin 15-year-old named Lesley Hornby and said: "You're like a twig. I'll call you Twiggy...
...including the nine-page letter to the McGraw-Hill president; and checks-made out to Hughes for $700,000 as payment for the book, endorsed by Hughes and cleared through a Zurich banking house called Credit Suisse. Irving would also have had to forge Hughes' handwriting in the extensive pencil editing that Hughes did in the margins of the original transcript. McGraw-Hill's Leventhal says
What does Actress Paulette Goddard smell like? She informed Columnist Eugenia Sheppard that her late husband, Novelist Erich Maria Remarque, had told her, "You smell like pencil shavings...