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Warming up to his subject, MeInnis took a swipe at the off-season training tha is now necessary in so many sports. "In my day," said McInnis, "football was a fall sport, baseball was a spring sport, and the two didn...
Togliatti gave a mighty swipe of his desk, once more shot to his feet, raced for the government bench. "Let me go!" he shouted as two comrades seized him. "This is too much. He doesn't respect the dead. Let me go!" Other Communists yelled at De Gasperi: "Leave the hall...
...Jane Wyman) chant their triumphal formula: Be a mess, be a mess, be a mess! And not many revues can offer two full-length parodies that hit at least as many right notes as wrong ones: a musical-comedy Hamlet (with Dick Sykes), which has the good sense to swipe its music, and a Streetcar-like, Salesman-like version of Cinderella as it might have been directed by Elia Kazan...
...veins of my right arm for that man." But Footman Charley is momentarily too busy to take Edie seriously. He is hovering outside the dying butler's bedroom, waiting for the brief coma between life and death when he can safely order young Albert to pop in and swipe the old man's private notebooks, priceless treasures of information about how to work the castle pork barrel-which guests can be touched for tips, what pennies can be pocketed undetected, what overcharges can be got away with...
...goggling French customs officer: "Quelle femme!") In London, Bebe came out foursquare against false bosoms: "I don't wear them [myself] and I never will. A girl must be her very own self. Palsies aren't honest." The U.S. beauty (bust 37, hips 36) also took a swipe at the "French-type" bathing suit: "A dab here, and a bit right down here and back there." Said she righteously: "So much unrestrained nudity has a bad moral effect on men, as well as people generally...