Word: unwrapping
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Most U.S. retail merchants would rather unwrap a beefsteak in a lion's cage than display nylons openly, let alone advertise them. The few who have tried have repented almost immediately-once in Chicago a horde of irritable females chased a proprietor out a fire escape when his supply of nylons was gone...
...lunchtime, pupils lined up at a basin took turns washing. Miss Campbell and the older boys & girls, helped the young children unwrap sandwiches, got the potatoes out of the stove. While the children ate, Ralph told them about an airplane trip he had taken a few days before. First crisis of the day came after lunch, when Ralph and Johnny were discovered in the ditch beside the road, fighting. Brought before Miss Campbell, they bawled. She restored peace by appointing them both captains to run the kickball game. But Ralph was still sulky after the game. Said...
...innocent seances in a sea-coast village. They form an adroit plan to exploit his doddering abilities. First they procure a knowing minx (Sylvia Sidney) to take care of the faith-healer. Then they have a contortionist named "Froggy" (John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches and unwrap when the faith-healer looks at heaven. To their dismay, the faith-healer works other and less specious miracles. In the end, instead of absconding with moneys they have collected from his patients, they become converted. They decide to stay with the faith-healer and build him a chapel. Silly shot...