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...from Swift and Rabelais. Advertised as "a roaring burlesque of middle-class morality," it is actually an aimless gaggle of giggles about a bus boy who married money. At the end, with a penetration more like Jack Homer's than Dean Swift's, Max sticks in his thumb and pulls out a withered old prune for his readers' delectation. Money, he warns archly, corrupts...
...face down on a mattress, and turned his head freely from side to side in sleep. At 15 weeks, a baby wrapped in a blanket and put face down on a mattress turned on his back, pushed the blanket away from his face and contentedly sucked his thumb without once waking...
...alleged sins against free trade. They control 15 of the 32 theaters in New York, seven out of nine in Chicago, two out of three in Detroit, and all the houses in Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. With almost all the tryout towns under their thumb, said the complaint, the Shuberts have forced producers to rent Shubert-controlled theaters in New York by threatening to bar them from out-of-town houses. And when producers take successful shows on the road, it was charged, they have to arrange their tours through the United Booking Office...
...Luigi di Mauro, slipped through the melee, cocked his fist, was set to throw a haymaker against Italy's motionless Premier when another huge fist, belonging to Labor Minister Achille Marazza, appeared from nowhere and knocked him flat. In frustrated rage, Comrade Di Mauro bit Marazza's thumb to the bone. Meanwhile, Comrade Togliatti had prudently retreated to the corridor...
Lonely Millionaire. She was 35 when her mother died; she had never had a beau, was so painfully shy that she would hide in a bedroom when her cousin, Hollis Gale, came to visit. She and her brother had been kept under their mother's thumb in a suite in the Buckingham Hotel for years; though they inherited millions they stayed on in the familiar rooms...