Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he is "still a free man," has no immediate plans to marry a nightclub dancer named Joanne Rio, whom he met four years ago in a Hollywood church. "I have to wait out the projects." giggled he. "Another year won't make me an old man." No sooner did he thus spike rumors of romance than one of his other projects panned out. An Oklahoma oil well, half-owned by Liberace and his ever-present brother George, blew itself in, began flowing at a heartening 100 barrels an hour...
Herodians, Zealots & a Nymph. Toynbee is sure that a universal state-a single, worldwide government run either by Washington or Moscow-has been rendered inevitable ("sooner rather than later") by modern technology. The atom bomb clinched it. The only question is: Will the world state come about by war or peacefully? Toynbee has no illusions that it can be brought about by the U.N., or by any "talismanic blueprint of a federal constitution." His own answer is conditioned by a fascinating historical analysis of how nations try to meet the penetration of foreign civilizations. There are, he says, two constantly...
...stock brokerage firms, his real estate and a garage where one of his cars was laid up. It could all be cleared up, she told a court, if Astor would merely let her forget at the rate of $1,000 a week. To make matters worse, Dolly no sooner walked off the ship than she walked out on Astor and got in touch with her attorneys. The tabloids spread broad hints that she too was more interested in the money than the man. "This was not a happy honeymoon," was the sorrowful conclusion of one of Astor's friends...
...easy to plunge ahead as if you were right without giving the other point of view." No one could ever accuse Cassandra of giving the other point of view on anything from dogs ("Man's best friend is a fake and a fraud, and the sooner he is taught to lay eggs or produce milk the better") to doctors ("I don't like their mumbo jumbo, their smooth, lying inefficiency...
...meets-girlishness, more or less what might have happened if Stendhal had been writing for Sam Goldwyn. The ideal cast: Gary Grant, Gene Tierney and Audrey Hepburn. The plot: Tierney, a high-fashion cutie, comes for a visit at the country house of Grant, her fiancé. No sooner has she arrived than Grant discovers that Hepburn, a runaway adolescent, has parked herself on his premises. Sure that Tierney won't understand, he hides the girl in the attic. From there out, it is pie-in-the-eye farce, but with a gentle sigh to be heard, just offscreen...