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...says. "Without Jesus Christ I am nothing. Without Him I am a miserable wretch." The guy leaves...
...steps closer to home, established residence in Belgium and promised a return to France soon. In the meantime, he vowed to say and do nothing to blight Belgian-French relations. When reporters asked if he would approach De Gaulle for an amnesty, Georges replied grandly: "I, Bidault, approach that wretch?" Besides, he said, "to have amnesty one must first have been pronounced guilty. For what it is worth, I have never been convicted...
...girls themselves are not the most promising lot. Adele, played by Gunnel Lindblom, is a sullen servant wretch whose impending miscarriage climaxes a lifetime of disappointments. Having lost a girlhood lover, she barely tolerates marriage to a handyman she loathes. Angela (Gio Petre) is a young aristocrat, seduced and abandoned by her aunt's former paramour. Agda (Harriet Andersson) is a trollop who took sweets from a lecherous stranger at nymphet age, and has been surpassingly generous to menfolk ever since...
...Unhappy Wretch. After detailing the effects of the pause, the President asked the Congressmen for their views. When Mansfield's turn came, he pulled out a hurriedly written two-page
...passage describing how a group of Senators demanded that Lincoln reshape his Cabinet to their specifications to assure greater harmony. "Mr. Lincoln had no intention of doing this," the President drawled. "He had told a friend that all of the responsibilities of the Administration 'belong to that unhappy wretch called Abraham Lincoln,' and as he tried to meet those responsibilities, the last thing he needed or wanted was a contrived or enforced harmony...