Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...production. The cast, headed by Peter Rousmaniere, Peter Morin, and John Mercer, all performed well, and occasionally with excellence. The minor flashback characters were good in spite of the brevity of their parts, with Farrell Page becomingly wistful in her short stint as The Banker's Beautiful (but now pregnant) Daughter. All the heroes were first-rate, with Doug Kenny particularly funny as gay Wild Bill. Other physical aspects of the production deserve credit, and certainly the direction can only be hailed as superb. The fault, then, lies in the play itself. Like the little girl, it is often very...
...deadly years later, Joe finds that he has risen to the top only to hang there, skewered. The poor little rich girl whom he had to marry because she was pregnant is now a bored little rich bitch, played by Jean Simmons with just enough sting to paralyze a mate but not quite enough to kill the pain. "It isn't what you expected, is it?" she says knowingly, then as an idle, needling afterthought: "Have you ever had a colored girl?" Joe answers no to both questions. What he's got is a shaky executive...
...History does indeed repeat itself. In your account a rescue-team member called out to some people trapped in an elevator in the Empire State Building: "Are there any pregnant women aboard?" and received the well-timed answer: "Why we've hardly even...
...Britain, during the blitz, special airraid shelters were created for pregnant women and invalids. One night, an airraid warden called down into the depths of the Piccadilly Circus tube station: "I say, are there any pregnant women there?" Instantly came back your answer: "Gorblimey, guv'nor, give us a chawnce-we've only been here seven minutes...
...election officials were kidnaped, key opposition candidates kept off the ballots entirely. In heavy Awolowo precincts, polling places mysteriously ran out of ballots, and Akintola's party stalwarts stuffed the ballot boxes in others. "Men became pregnant with ballot papers," chortled one observer. All urns, of course, had to be shipped immediately to the regional capital at Ibadan for Akintola's "official" counting, and when it was all over, the only surprise was the size of his victory: 78 seats to 18. "The West has gone too far," said the nation's leading political commentator Peter Enahoro...