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...Skid, Grable's alcoholic husband, Dan Dailey is an engaging dancing partner. The moral seems to be: forced to choose between booze and Grable, what man would be fool enough to want to drink...
...wrote this is listed in the American Catholic Who's Who as an "apologist" for the faith. He is really an agitator. For 35 years he traveled up & down the U.S. in the dirty, ragged clothes which were his only possessions, sleeping in flophouses, eating in skid row joints, inveighing to everyone he met against industrialism, war and Christian smugness. His name is Peter Maurin...
Barbara started skating when she was four years old. Someone strapped old-fashioned double runners to her booted feet and showed her out on the surface of a local pond. Unable to do more than skid and stagger, she wept, Kicked off the blades, and gave up skating...
Three University economists have refused to see either the end of the current inflationary period or the beginning of a crash as the result of the downward skid in stock and commodity markets, although they universally declare themselves "unable to make any definite predictions...
...became "General" and his new Salvation Army fell into step behind him as uniformed privates, noncoms and officers-with bands, "councils of war," "orders of the day" and "knee-drill" (prayer). The enemy was the Devil, and the Army marched to meet him wherever the going was toughest: in Skid Rows and slum alleyways...