Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about 4%, to a peak 123 (1947-49 = 100). "It's as if we all sat down together-which we didn't-and decided to raise prices," says one appliance-company executive. "It's that old, old, devil inflation. Starting with the steel price rise, a spiral has started throughout industry. We've already soaked up two or three cost increases. We just had to pass this...
...easy spiral for somebody to catch. It hits the ground on its side, or an end, with a forward roll. If anybody's there, it's hard to pick up. If nobody's there, it keeps going," explains Indian Coach, Bob Blackman...
Though it may have lost excitement with the years, The Spiral Staircase is still a charming thriller. Along with banging shutters, shadowy figures, unexplained noises, taps on the window, a wine cellar, and doors that open and close by themselves, there occur upwards of half a dozen murders...
...vast number of Victorian sub-intrigues and love affairs make a coherent summary of the plot impossible. The spiral staircase is in the old Warren House, run by Professor Warren (George Brent) and owned by old Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore) who is dying upstairs, attended by Helen the dumb maid (Dorothy McGuire). She cannot talk. When young Dr. Parry arrives to attend to old Mrs. Warren, he falls in love with Helen. Then the professor's step-brother, Stephen Warren, turns up, and young ladies commence dying, among them Stephen's own girl friend, Blanche (Rhonda Fleming...
...remainder of the action takes poor Susannah on a descending spiral through rejection by the townsfolk, false betrayal by the local idiot, seduction by the evan gelist himself, humiliation by the congre gation, and the eventual murder (by her brother) of her seducer. The grim tale ends on an ambiguous note with Susannah laughing hysterically...