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...Louisiana detour cause the collision of two Chevrolets and the death of one of the animals. Next morning Judge Clummerhorn (Raymond Walburn), patriarch of Hope Center, finds Jane Dale (Wendy Barrie), runaway socialite, and Bill Shevlin (Spencer Tracy), duck-hunting lawyer, huddled, together in the car that has remained upright and apparently hating each other bitterly. Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table d'hôte that evening, Jane...
...salary has been lower in my town than that of any local mail clerk, mail carrier, business manager or administrator, preacher, and of certain filling station employees and retail clerks. . . . Assets: one car (runs best in garage); three suits clothes (when wearing two of which I find a strictly upright carriage advisable) ; one pair worn shoes (but feet in good shape). Also one sense of humor, somewhat groggy or in a comatose state (seems to be result of trying to explain to children the value of education in North Carolina...
...that there are still some millions of Americans left who would like to own an automobile designed with sufficient road clearance to permit them to travel occasionally on country roads away from the maddening rush and with sufficient head room to permit a man six feet tall to sit upright and see something of the country through which he is traveling, instead of . . . being obliged to double up over the steering wheel like a half-closed jackknife in order even to see traffle signals...
...nonsense British education at Rugby and Balliol, settled down to spend his days as a schoolmaster at Sedbergh School, in Yorkshire. There he stayed for 17 years, leaving in friendly, dignified disagreement with the Head because he would not consider preparing boys for confirmation. A master of unbendingly upright character, a pipe-puffer, he was called "Joey Stinker" because he always smelled of tobacco. In a hard-working staff he set the pace, averaged ten hours work a day in term-time, including Sundays. Though he did not feel qualified to be a spiritual mentor, he was religious...
...upright was made, Mr. Koehler was positive, from a missing plank in Hauptmann's attic floor. Old nail holes in the upright fitted perfectly into place over the attic floor joists. Its growth rings matched an adjoining floor plank...