Word: straightening
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...Proctor (Scott McKay) is daft in love with his neurotic, flutter-hearted patient, and has brought her to his family's home to calm her down for marriage. His-brother Douglas (Ralph Bellamy), a gay, bottom-slapping commercial artist, has a vaguely kind idea he can help straighten her out; she promptly determines to devour his soul. Douglas' wife Ann (Ruth Warrick), suspecting nothing, is all solicitude and sympathy; their little girl Lee (Connie Laird) is so infatuated that she begins to ape Evelyn's haloed mannerisms. Sick-minded Evelyn, using always the silkiest of deceptions, needs...
...Whistler (yes, old straighten up and Stan Wright) got a formal hands off note recently from an irate Boston mother. In spite of Stan's letter enclosing his distinction marks and quartile rating, it seems that her 14-year-old daughter is still too young for his attentions. But Stan never says die. He's currently working on that "schoolboy" approach...
...Roosevelt Administration enters its fourth term this week, Hopkins is, more than ever, the President's right arm. But he may miss the cozy, back-porch Term IV inauguration. Washington reports last week had him going to London, to straighten out in advance with Winston Churchill the agenda for the upcoming Big Three meeting...
...prove that even a platoon leader can think if necessary, Marv Fauria solved the whole Management case by answering, "Sir, before I get you any more confused, suppose you straighten...
Karski stood by this grave in silence. Then, he went to his sister's house. Before entering, he automatically tried to straighten his tie. As he did so, he suddenly realized how he looked-a matted beard, ragged clothes that a peasant had given him, the accumulated dirt of battle, retreat, prison. He burst into hysterical laughter. He went into the house to find that while his sister knew him, he scarcely knew her. Her husband had been arrested, tortured, shot...