Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hiss: I may have been in one or another place of Mr. Collins' abode when one or another or more than one of the other people you have referred to may have been present. If so, it was on some social occasion-dinner, cocktails, something of that sort...
Added Eddie Arcaro: "Citation sort of waited for him and when he saw Papa he began to eat himself up. You're always a little worried, but I was never worried that I didn't have enough horse under me. He can beat any horse in any part of a race...
...primary, Earl hurried to testify against Huey. The brothers faced each other for hours, faces distorted, arms flailing. Earl testified that Huey had told him that a man named Abell (H. C. Abell, New York representative of Electric Bond & Share Co.) had "given him $10,000 and Huey was sort of afraid to use it for fear it was marked...
...comedy of Jeanette MacDonald's look of bovine bewilderment in such musicals as The Love Parade and The Merry Widow, probably had some good idea what he was about when he picked Betty (Lubitsch died before it was finished and Director Otto Preminger took over). Betty plays a sort of royal compound of Russia's Catherine, Sweden's Christina and the cutie behind the cosmetic counter...
...Sister. Part of the reason is that the reader knows so much about Margy Shannon. What he learns of her is not what he ordinarily learns of the heroine of a romance, but the sort of information (with a few additions) one has about one's sister. The experience is less like reading a novel than it is like living in the same house with the girl. If she were not a nice girl to have around, the book would be intolerable. She is delightful, not in the sense of being winsome or charming, but in the sense...