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...power and prestige her Variety column gives her, ambitious Columnist Graham can probably hold her own. Hollywood has not forgotten how Constance Bennett, indiscreetly baring her fangs, once greeted Sheilah with: "It's hard to believe that a girl as pretty as you could be the biggest bitch in Hollywood." "Not the biggest, Connie," purred Sheilah. "The second biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Third from the Right | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...cared for are always "darlings." Lost dogs are inevitably "the pet of an invalid grandmother" or belong to a "heartbroken little girl." Dogs for sale are recommended variously in classified newspaper ads as "love that money can't buy," "darlings," "cuddlies," and "swell pets." Most refined touch: a bitch with a litter of pups listed as a "matron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: You'll Simply Drool | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...tastes like vinegar. The villa's glittering bathrooms are tiled with condescending instructions: "Press handle down, hold for one minute and release with a slight jerk." The ten-year-old footman has been taught to speed departing guests with the final salute: "You-goddamned-son-of-a-bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...August" being especially noteworthy. An extended review of "Requiem for a Nun" by Albert Guerard seems to me the best that has appeared. Along other things, Guerard's passing reference to "Temple Drake's tragedy (which is that she is Temple Drake)" is a classic thumbnail sketch of the bitch-heroine...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: On the Shelf | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...about ten minutes the deputy sheriff was there ... And the deputy he shined the light in my face and he said to the sheriff, 'That son of a bitch is not dead,' and then he said, 'Let's kill him.' The deputy sheriff then pointed the pistol on me and pulled the trigger, snapped the trigger, and the gun did not shoot. He took it around to the car lights and looked in it and shined the light on it. He turned it on me again and pulled it and that time it fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Sheriff Shoots | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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