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...face appears suddenly in the depths of the font and the holy water bubbles to a rolling boil. The scriptwriters have also provided an unwittingly hilarious line. After slaughtering five sheep and draining them of blood, the werewolf, now a fat little boy, is called to lunch by his fond stepmother. "Aw, mother," he pouts, just like any other little boy called in from play, "I'm not hungry...
Many of the Union's members sport a round pin bearing the word DO, which stands for the WCTU doors-open theme ("Doors Open for Christian Sobriety"). "Do" is also the WCTU's favorite word. Members are fond of sentences with lots of energetic do's, like "Do not be afraid to do whatever you can do to stop your friends from purchasing food in supermarkets that do sell beer and malts." The slogan for the coming year is "Double...
...Broadway cows turned out to pasture (this season: Under the Yum-Yum Tree, The Pleasure of His Company, etc.). But he has also mixed in Wilde, Williams, Sherwood, and Giraudoux, giving the Kennebunkport Playhouse a high reputation among actors, critics, and the sober side of his audiences. Performers are fond of returning there, including Tallulah Bankhead, Henry Morgan, Russell Nype, and Currier's own sister, Singer Jane Morgan...
...world. (Later he was to boast of eleven illegitimate children.) When peace brought the hospital visits to an end, Whitman kept writing to the boys, although few answered. One exception was Peter Doyle, a veteran who worked as a conductor on the Washington-Georgetown City Railroad. For all his fond words to his "own loving boys" and his pathetic promise to make Pete "a correct speller & real handsome writer," he would get in return something like this: "i cant rite so good as the car is in motion...
...Baker is fond of having his performers constantly moving around the stage in circles, as though all his previous experience had been in arena theatre. On the whole, his contributions are so distracting that it is hard to keep one's mind on the play...