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...roots in earlier Coward work. The Rat Trap (unproduced) not only ended its second act in similar vein but its third as well. Perhaps it all goes back further than that, for when he was a child Playwright Coward once bashed a little girl on the head with a spade because she would not take seriously her part in one of his nursery productions...
...swish them through boiling water. As the pearls heat they will lose their moonbeam lustre, may crack and the wealthy lady will grow frantic. Yet last week all Japan honored a short, stocky, crinkly-faced old man who had rolled up his kimono sleeves, seized a blunt spade and vigorously shoveled into a fiery furnace 720,000 of his best pearls. Within three minutes they turned to flaky ashes (crystallized lime...
...life in a harem, but boredom, not shame, helped her to escape, with the help of a pure-minded U. S. sanitary engineer. Finally just a year late, she reached north Oxford at last. Aunt Ermyntrude was not at all upset, was still expecting her. Without once calling a spade a spade, Author Laver manages to give the impression that a good deal of spadework has been done...
...Rome the smoking hot impatience of Benito Mussolini for fewer words and more action at numerous Conferences now facing the Great Powers erupted in a speech to the Italian Senate last week by hazel-eyed, spade-bearded Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, most trusted henchman of the Dictator...
Selectmen can easily assume an injured attitude; that is probably what they do best. But now they have overstepped all bounds in resorting to boner law. They are preventing a free-lance student from also being a free-spade artist. While anthropologist Andrews merely insists that the bones are filed away in Peabody Museum, they insist that the bones are defiled. But Mr. Andrews seems fair to knock them for a ghoul. It is hinted that he plans to give the bones back since they are not good specimens anyway. The happy ending will be provided if Mr. Andrews offers...