Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Back in the U.S. with Marina, Oswald once more suffered frustrations. "The relations between Lee and Marina Oswald," says the Warren Commission, "are of great importance in any attempt to understand Oswald's possible motivation." Oswald was a wife-beating tyrant, laid down orders that Marina must not smoke, drink or wear cosmetics. But, says the Commission, "although she denied it in some of her testimony before the Commission, it appears that Marina Oswald also complained that her husband was not able to provide more material things for her." Neighbors also recall that Marina complained to them in his presence...
...Pets & Smoke. Under "Pets," The Book You Shouldn't Need provides the information that if the neighbor's dog is keeping you awake by nightlong barking, you call the Police Department. If the annoyance is merely smelly or the result of bad house training, appeal to the Department of Buildings. But if the neighboring pet turns out to be a jaguar (fond of dropping in through your window unannounced and at odd hours), the appeal is to the Health Department (keeping dangerous animals without proper safeguards...
...Bagley has already issued a similar collection of artifacts from Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. After Cole Porter, he plans to revisit Noel Coward and Jerome Kern. He has two recondite versions of Kern's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, which was an early failure, having begun its existence, startlingly enough, as a military march called I'm Marching Off to War. Bagley also has some high-powered Coward, most notably an item called Carrie Was a Careful Girl, which is, of all things, a ballad about contraceptives...
...buddy of Goulet's. When Andy opens the front door, a full-grown black bear strolls out. When the lovers sit on the couch, springs boing in all directions. When they start upstairs, the stairs collapse. When Andy lights a fire, the house fills up with smoke. When he runs to the well for water, the cap collapses, and he lands in the drink. When he tries to barbecue a chicken, flame shoots out of the bird's behind and whoosh! it takes off like a rocket...
...eternity rather than time. Millions of Americans caught their first glimpse of the Cushing style at the 1961 presidential inauguration, when his windy, ear-shattering invocation was interrupted by a fire in the loudspeaker wiring. One viewer protesting the length of the prayer wrote to Cushing that the smoke represented "the Devil asking for equal time." Now Cushing says sadly: "I thought it was a pretty good prayer, but less than three years later Jack was killed. So it didn't seem to do any good...