Word: quothing
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...etry, but it's what the raven quoth. And why not? After all, this is just a sappy little parody of a horror picture cutely calculated to make the children scream with terror while their parents scream with glee. The raven, see, isn't really a raven at all. It's Peter Lorre. The poor chap has been enchanted by Boris Karloff, a wicked wizard who lives in a slimy green castle-that one over there on the left side of the screen. The one on the right side of the screen belongs to Hero Price...
...flirt and flutter, in there steps a stately raven of the saintly days of yore. "Prophet!" says he, "thing of evil! Prophet still, if bird or devil! Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore!" Quoth the raven...
...such a wonderful friendship that it would be a shame to spoil it with marriage," quoth Actress Joan Fontaine, 45, who has lost three former friends that way: Husbands Brian Aherne, William Dozier and Collier Young. Joan pooh-poohed stories that she was about to marry Cartoonist Charles Addams, 51, the Van Gogh of the ghouls. "Marriage is for people who want babies or to live in villages; since we want neither, we're not interested...
...daily critics when they reviewed Subways Are for Sleeping was three negatives (Kerr, Taubman, and John McClain of the Journal-American) against three positives (Watts, Chapman, and Robert Coleman of the Mirror), with the World-Telegram's Norman Nadel hanging in the air. Said the real Kerr: "Limp." Quoth the real Taubman: "Stumbles as if suffering from somnambulism...dull and vapid...
Would she marry again? Quoth raven-voiced Bette Davis: Nevermore. Back in Hollywood for a remake of Lady for a Day, the 53-year-old veteran of some 70 films and four husbands renounced star-crossed matrimony: "This business is timeconsuming, and there is the matter of making more money than your husband does. It's too bad. I like men, but I just can't stay married to them...