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...irony, Rosebury & Kabat-who know as well as anyone, and better than most, that there are "portentous moral issues involved"-even suggest a design for a convenient-size bottle of death: "Culture preparations of bacteria or viruses . . . might be dispensed, either in liquid suspension or in dry form, in thin-walled glass ampules. . . . To insure the breaking on contact with water, a gas-generating element like those used in fire extinguishers might be included...
...nearby theater. Then they turned on the studio itself-breaking equipment and furniture until the police arrived and nabbed ten of the gang. Still smarting, they marched to Little Happiness' home, on Yunnan Road, climbed up to his second-story flat, slapped his wife. But of the thin, sharp face of Little Happiness they found not so much as a smirk. He was elsewhere, in hiding...
...foamed ... on every street. . . . Spring had tossed her pale green garments on every branch. . . . Long beams of sun fell across [Frank Clair's] thin white hands [which] lay on his coat, still, flaccid. . . . His eyes moved too slowly in their pits of dark shadow...
Worn out, he went to bed early (but not before shaving, which he does at night so that a thin stubble will protect his face when the sun is bright). Next day, he rose at 5:45 a.m. as usual, took one look at the soaked fields. If the weather didn't dry up soon, the corn would be late going in, and it might be soft, come harvest time. Soft corn made poor feed...
...daft painter who subtly murders one wife after another. It was a Broadway hit chiefly because it provided a superb five-finger exercise for one of the trickiest actresses in the trade-Elisabeth Bergner. With the less versatile Barbara Stanwyck in the Bergner role, the story is merely thin and shabby...