Word: sues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Indemnity. In Colorado Springs, Olive Mae Mulica fell down a manhole, suffered minor injuries, refused to sue, asked only for a new pair of nylons...
...suburban firemen who are forever rescuing treed cats. Some of the cartoons are local jokelets which only Bostonians are apt to appreciate. At the book's end is one of Dahl's rare political gibes. It begins by noting that Mayor James M. Curley, who used to sue almost every time his name was mentioned in print, had been sentenced to jail for war-contract frauds. There follow six blank panels and a postscript : "No grounds for libel here...
...soon as the second half started, and with it the activities of the rooter, the aforementioned usher rushed up and threw the rooter out. Personally, as far as I'm concerned, a football game is a football game; and, if I ever find that usher, I'll sue him for the sprained back I received in the fall...
...relative pitch is worth an hour or so every week. By the sixth chorus of the initial piece, "Darktown Strutters Ball," it had become apparent to the bystanders that here was an occurrence above and beyond the usual order of things. From thence and in the following order "Sweet Sue," "Blues in B Flat," "Tea for two," "Ja Da," and "The Sheik" were attacked. One of the reed men, a startling cross between Johnny Dodds and Joe Marsala blasted out a machine gun-like obligatto in answer to the adept growlings of the slip horn, while the cornetist, feeling...
...Jeanne Crain cult, will find ample compensation for the vagaries of the story as well as for the uninteresting technicolor, the bad dialogue, and Corned Wilde's French accent. "All Through The Day" and "In Love In Vain" Eave been popular for weeks now, and better yet is "Cinderella Sue," a number which Avon Lang makes worth the venerated price of admission. As for Miss Crain, she is as unaffected and pleasant as she is easy on the eyes, despite the uninspired company of such experienced Fox low standard bearers as Wilde and Linda Darnell...