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When I mount the creepie-chair,* Wha will sit beside me there? Gie me Rob, I'll seek nae mair, The rantin dog, the daddie...
...Wives rob men of the shock-and-counter-shock of life by being over eager to protect them," Wilder said according to "The Post" and the men less exposed to life's cruelties become correspondingly less incisive writers...
...would be unfair to say more and rob Black Chiffon of whatever suspense it has; that, along with the chance it gives people to act, is just about its only virtue. It is one of those triangle stories of the husband, the wife and the offspring treated to a British mixture of the melodramatic, the mawkish and the scandalous. It is Freud for suburban housewives whose buzzing classroom is the Wednesday matinee. Offering theft as an aperitif, it follows up with a seemingly headier and more dangerous brew that is actually rather saccharine and soporific...
Strike Three. In Tulsa, Okla., Coney Lee Coffey tried for the third time to rob the Lucky Seven Grill, for the third time got caught...
...suspense, or merely "an enigma"-has always been generally regarded as a cross between torn peepery and violation of a blindman's cup. Turning to the last page of any book requires no great critical acumen . . . Yet surprise is the mystery writer's stock in trade ... To rob him of this stock in trade by wholesale revelation in a review is not only unethical but actually damaging ... I am surprised, therefore, that TIME'S reviewer has stooped to do just this to E. C. Bentley's Elephant's Work [TIME...