Word: walleted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dark cranny where 17 years ago. as a shy and unhappy ragamuffin, he spent his hours as a chronic hooky player from school. "Just like I remember it," said Floyd. "Crazy, man," said a trainer. Someone else had found Floyd's hideaway. Rummaging around, he found a pilfered wallet left behind by a pickpocket. Clambering down from the unlit alcove, the champ brushed off the soot and sighed. "Now I can get it off my mind...
...then the picture sends up a good line, like "I can see the tears forming in your wallet," and "What if a cobra bites you in a place you can't reach? That's when you find out who your real friends are." For auld lang zing, Dorothy Lamour puts in an appearance, boldly slinking around in a sarong and looking half her age. But for the most part, The Road to Hong Kong seems like a whoop-it-up college reunion held by the last two members of the class...
...quality with whalebone traditions, who has hitched up her skirt and gone to work without losing her manners, keeping her balance with an infusion of wild Irish blood into her Yankee veins. In the bayous of Gulf Coast Texas stands Houston, a young, lusty oilman with a fat wallet, unfenced-in tastes and opinions that tend to be conservative. And Los Angeles, on the Pacific shore, is a fast-growing, outdoor girl-a lady with jet contrails ruffling her hair, celluloid coiled around her feet, and a reputation for capriciousness that she does not wholly deserve...
...will suffer brain fag identifying the Michaelson family. There is Daddy (Art Carney), a Blunt Ox with a heart as big as his wallet ("I got in plastics early"). There is Mom (Phyllis Thaxter), a sugar-coated Sphinx full of smiling inner wisdom. There is Daughter Mollie (Elizabeth Ashley), a cute little Bunny hopping from her West Coast home to an Eastern college, and into the sights of the great white hunters from Harvard, Princeton and Yale...
Unlike men-who have everything because they are content to keep what they have for years-women never have enough. "You can always hang another piece of jewelry on a woman," says one man. She needs more than one pocketbook, for example, while a man seldom changes his wallet; the only thing she doesn't need more than one of is her wedding ring...