Word: threads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cain's super-sexed passages were the weakest parts of his story, and their removal is not responsible for the animated skeleton that MGM, has produced. Rather it is the inexplicable changes that have been made in the structure of the novel, changes that confuse and obscure the basic thread of love, changes that transform a dynamic series of events into an almost comically catastrophic succession of messes...
...world somewhere in the kidney region and walks, accordingly, with the famous sway-backed stoop. He still fires off his lines in the voice of a baying hound, with such irrefutable conviction that even the outrageously bad ones are funny. (Sample: "Your life is hanging by a thread." "So are my pants...
...purple spool of thread...
Dick Whitney thinks he has one. With it he expects to be turning out, by midsummer, about 10,000 pounds of finished thread a week in a plant near Zellwood...
...only brightening spot in textiles was in hosiery. Production of nylons had been slow getting started (mostly because of the shortage of nylon thread). But production is now hitting 30,000,000 pairs a month. They should soon begin to appear on the market in greater quantity...