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...been dropped by her socialite lover, is a very careful and tender piece of writing. But too much of the play is inexcusably tedious and full of long speeches like Ernie's final plea for "la vic jazz" which in almost a twinkling convinces his wife that he ain't a bad guy after...
...rippin', rarin', shootin', swearin' type of wooly Western bellowdrama, with horsemen riding hell bent for leather towards the Mexican border pursued by pop-gun posses. In Clark's book there is only one shooting and three hangings, all told, and even then the fellow that gets shot ain't killed...
...appetite, he often takes hamburgers along in his golf bag to keep from "starving" during a match. When he won his first big-time tournament last winter, he gave his kid brother $5 to buy all the ice-cream sodas he could manage. Porky on the locker room: "It ain't no place for me. If you stick around, you have to drink too many of them Tom Collinses...
...benefit. Soon, in the Ring Side, a sweet female voice would announce: "To John O'Malley the following number is respectfully dedicated: Get Out of Town." Philandering wives and husbands were startled to hear Magic Music's voice loudly dedicating to them such ditties as Ain't You 'Shamed...
...take itself too seriously. Once it printed a list of delinquent subscribers under the head: "Shall the Dead Live Again?" Lately it quipped editorially: "We see ... where they have started a new kind of paper [the tabloid, PM] in New York. No advertisements will be carried in it. There ain't nothing new about that idea-we have been darn near running that kind of paper* for ten years...