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...semester's grades were announced, Giuseppe heard that he had flunked his math. To make matters worse, Professor Modugno humiliated him by announcing that even the failing grade was higher than he deserved. Giuseppe walked home brooding over the injustice of it all. He pried open the locked chest that contained his father's pistol, put the 7.65 Browning automatic in his pocket and went back to his afternoon classes...
Betty's new automatic dishwasher is designed for apartment dwellers; it's on rollers, so that it can be moved along with the rest of the furniture. As for deep-freezers, Betty wouldn't think of the low, chest-type any more; the new Westinghouse is upright, with "drop-down doors" and "rollout drawers," so that Betty can get at all her frozen foods easily. Her new steam iron eliminates the old pressure method of spreading steam, since it has a mass of little gullies on its bottom which lead the steam across the entire ironing surface...
...finale came when Tarah was "buried alive." He went into another cataleptic fit and stage hands laid him into a plywood coffin lying in a pile of sand. They sprinkled several shovelfuls of sand on his face and chest, then, as the interpreter announced over the microphone that the coffin was completely filled with sand (the lights were funereally dim, and the people on the stage could hardly see, let alone the audience) the lid, which warped up in the back leaving an inch crack facing away from the audience, was put on the coffin, making it "air tight...
...presence, that she loved him so much that she had decided to let him do more things for himself-notably, of course, to dress himself. Mike was included in a weekly "family council," where his parents treated him as an equal and let him get things off his chest. (If his sister had been old enough, she would have been required to take part, too. It often develops that the "good" brother or sister is the real cause of the "problem child's" behavior...
...Henry lit his candle at both ends and rushed off to singe the fashionable moths in London and Salisbury. He was a big, ruddy-faced fellow, standing over six feet, with a chest like a barrel and a profile like something in a Punch & Judy show. His eyes, however, were "dark, and as full of sweetness as of fire," and his wit and intellect were already honed to a cutting edge. In London's beau monde of 1727, the petticoats rustled and the epigrams bristled where young Henry passed; he appeared to like the sound of petticoats best...