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...Night Before Christmas (by Sidney Joseph & Laura West Perelman, produced by Courtney Burr) is not a bedtime story. It is a mottled Sing Sing folk tale of a silver-haired confidence man past his prime and a slop-house plug ugly who pair up to crack a bank vault for Christmas. They buy a tired Manhattan luggage shop next door to the bank and start tunneling. Obstructed by unwanted customers, garrulous neighbors, former penmates, they dynamite, not the vault, but a nearby cafeteria, while Santa Claus stuffs their stocking with...
Last November, the Post editorialized on "increasing restiveness" among Minister Howe's top-flight dollar-a-year men. They agreed, said the Post, that he had weaknesses (a "slop-over of his strengths"), such as his offhand way of tossing around millions, his tendency to place a war order and simultaneously speak of the goods as already delivered. Last year, while Minister Howe was in England, the Financial Post exposed the botched situation in Federal Aircraft Ltd., Government-formed company to coordinate aircraft production. (Source of the Post's well documented exposé was plane manufacturers themselves...
...good woman is sorely tried by the inner withdrawal of an almost blind husband and the importunities of a compelling man-about-town. The child makes it a quadrangle. Neither as intent nor as interesting as Miss Hull's Experiment (TIME, Feb. 5), but well above the slop level...
...aint particklar whut youre age or whuther your one uv them thar big handsum broots jest so yawr a blond. All i want is a home and sum hogs ter slop and chickens ter feed. i heerd that that thar school uv larnin reely did put out som purty good gents so i'll guarantee ya Ill do all the house work like cuttin the wood, haulin the water an milkin the knows. We shore would make a good happy pare...
...Gentlemen. I want to remonstrate with you. I want to plead with you to stop this promotion of the open-toed, open-backed shoe for street wear. . . . Today you see millions of women, all over America, slop-slopping along the streets with not only their toes out, but their heels out too. ... I won't be a bit surprised if, some day, they just walk right out on you and shellac their soles and put bells on their toes and say, 'To hell with shoes!!' . . . All this makes me very...