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...central idea is that Joan Crawford, in the title role, will do absolutely anything for her daughter, who is a most unpleasant female. This, of course, leads Miss Crawford into all sorts of difficulties, but she never realizes to the bitter end that it all would be much neater and happier if she killed her daughter about a third of the way through the movie. The film's detectives might condemn her, but the audience would...
...stencil that fits over fingernails for quicker, neater nail tinting...
...remote; his work began to go sour. His own fireman called him a company man. When he asked about resigning from the Employee Plan, his superintendent said: "I'm overlooking this little trouble you had, but I expect you to stay on the committee." And so on-no neater or fairer study of labor relations has been made. Author Nichols moves all over the plant. But the pivotal symbol of the book is Pressure Stillman Gus Hammer, in whom, as his stills and his lifetime's skill become hopelessly outmoded, courage and dependability gradually degrade into sad, senile...
...winter rubbers. He wore his beige raincoat and had his umbrella at the ready, but he swung it; the air was soft and the lengthening days were heady. He forgot to notice that the sidewalks would be wider if the sandbags could be removed, that the skyline was neater before the bombs fell. A car starting up suddenly might make him jump. His children, when they hid in closets and crawled under chairs, informed him pertly that they were playing "shelter." But almost no one said: "You wouldn't know there...
...single track from Morehead City (pop. 3,483) on the coast to Goldsboro (pop. 14,958). Tarheels call it the "Mullet Line," because it used to haul so many fish. Yet last week no U.S. railroad man, seeking to justify private v. State ownership, could have hoped for a neater case than the Atlantic & North Carolina...