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...elements had been stirred and let simmer, the residuum didn't quite jell. Ernest Truex as the paterfamilias, Newton Fuller (who always wanted to live in the country) is well chosen, though his reiterated exhortation of "Just smell that air!" brings back memories of Ed Wynn's lisped plaint "I love the woods, I just love the woods." Jean Dixon as the wife is pleasant, but her change of heart just as the mortgage is going to be foreclosed--yes, there is a mortgage--seems slightly less than sincere. The various younger females, the daughter of the Fullers...
...hand Edith got for this Smoky plaint was roughly comparable, in Grand O1' Opry circles, to the way Lily Pons was welcomed to the Metropolitan. Right off, Edith was invited to join the Opry company. And Uncle Dave, Roy Acuff and the rest were pretty sure that The Broken Heart, properly whanged up, would be a juke-box hit in no time...
...sell its common to Otis or any one else, in fact left Consumers free to sell $10,000,000 of its common to the public or to C. & S. Ready customers for Consumers common, plus SEC's preference for equity money, contradicted Willkie's well-known plaint: that Government interference has stymied utility risk financing...
...they make a dreadful din. But when performing solo, Sturnus vulgaris is one of the most versatile of all bird mimics. It not only imitates the songs of many birds but also reproduces, with uncanny fidelity, the cackle of a laying hen, the tentative chirps of young robins, the plaint of annoyed guinea fowl, even the mew of a kitten or the whistling...
Modish, elfin-faced Eve Curie sued E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. for $50,000 damages. Her plaint: Not only had a Du Pont ad used an unauthorized photograph of her well-turned legs, but the ad conveyed the false impression that she wore Nylon (a Du Pont silk substitute...