Word: widder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building up to a lovemaking crisis and not letting it come off-as Hitchcock did in Notorious-Caniff has become the best tantalizer in the profession. It is the same heartless treatment that keeps housewives suffering daily with radio's Young Widder Brown, and it has the same crass commercial purpose. "It forces 'em to buy the paper," says Caniff, "to find out what the hell is going...
Later, when a cowpoke quaffed a "prairie pickup" ("straight formaldehyde with a black widder spider ridin' the olive"), his crepe whiskers fell off. Ad-libbed Actor Welles: "Mighty pow'ful stuff, that likker. Burns the whiskers right off'n a man's face...
...Sterling Drug and Sterling Products (aspirin, tooth powder, etc.), $8,252,208 for American Album of Familiar Music, Stella Dallas, Second Husband, Backstage Wife, Young Widder Brown...
Sometimes Lillian could glimpse the notorious "Widder Woman," dressed only in corset and drawers, prancing drunkenly to the pawnshop with the blanket she had stripped from her bastard son, who was dying of consumption. Sometimes Lillian could hear Red, Lem, Butch and Shorty Clapp exchanging local gossip. Others whom Lillian wondered about include: Lawyer Pettigrew, an ambitious politician who had seduced pretty Meg Taylor in the underbrush; Schoolmarm Fisher, who had a lurid mother complex; Rufe Albright, who frolicked in the barn with fat Fanny Rhimer; and precocious young Gregory Beamer, who persuaded Lillian's adolescent sister to bathe...
...salt-water cruise addict the longer ocean trip is well worth while. Nantucket, like the Vineyard, has escaped the commercialization which has ruined so many other vacation resorts. Here you will find gray-shingled cottages covered with rambler roses, cobble stoned streets, and century-old houses with "widder's walks," where Nantucket wives once climbed to look for the return of the old whaling ships...