Can a misfit be called a misfit in a more polite way?
In
the West End of London – say at the Drones Club in Dover Street, of
which he was a popular member- you would have encountered him without
surprise. In the executive building of the Superba – Llewellyn, he
seemed out of place. You felt he ought not to be there.
A latecomers guide to audacious cover-up
Sorry,
I’m late.....Anything sensational happened in my absence?
`No’
`No
earthquakes or other Acts of God?’
`No’
`No
trouble brewing in the writers kraals? The natives not restless?
`No’
One
liner to handle the surprises of life
In
this world we must be prepared for anybody to say anything.
You
too would love to be frustrated after reading this line
Sandy’s exasperation became too much for her. If she had had any
more lethal weapon than a small notebook, she would have thrown it at
him.
If a mere chronicler in these circumstances has a feeling of
bafflement and frustration, as though he had raced to catch a train
on Saturday morning and found on arrival at the station that it was
Sunday.
Hen-pecked husbands, more invective words cannot describe us.
At her command he jumps through hoops and snaps lumps of sugar off
his nose. He weeps with delight when she gives him a smile and
trembles with fear at her frown.
Customs inspectors terrified him, but not nearly so much as she did,
and he had good reason for his termors. In her professional days she
had been one of the best known panther women on the silver screen,
once a panther woman, always a panther woman. So he reached the
conclusion that however unpleasant the alternative her wishes would
have to be obeyed. But he didn’t like the prospect.
There
is no better way to describe these cruel fathers of beautiful girls.
The emotions of a young lover who has planned to lunch with the girl
he adores and gets her father instead are more readily imagined than
described.
Is
this Marital Trust or a Vouching Of The Husband’s timidness?
`Don’t
be a damned fool’ said Grace `My husband wouldn’t have the nerve
to cheat on me if you brought him all the girls in the Christmas
number of Playboy asleep on a chair’
A
Diet Detective?
`He’s
on a diet’ said Grace `It was my daughter’s suggestion. And I’m
going to see he sticks to it. No alcohol, no starchy foods. So search
his room from time to time, and if you find he’s hiding cakes and
candy and all that, tell me immediately and I’ll attend to it’.
That’s
not the kindest way to describe an individual
Mr
Molloy’s resemblance to an American senator of the better sort
inspired in those he met, a confidence which was of the greatest help
to him in life-work of selling stock in non-existent oil wells.
If
only couples took inspiration from Mr and Mrs Molloy
Each
respected the other’s Art, which is recognised as being the firmest
foundation for a happy marriage. If Soapy Molloy made a killing,
nobody could be more eager to celebrate than Dolly, and he was the
first to applaud when she returned from an afternoon at the stores
with objects that would come in useful about the home.
There is no better way to abash a rival
`Three heads are better than
one, even if one of them’s Soapy’s’
`What’s wrong with my head?’ Soapy demanded with some heat.
`Solid Ivory’ said Chimp `And it doesn’t even look nice’
The golden rule for all married men
Married men don’t assert themselves, not if they know what’s good
for them.
The golden rule for all men wanting to get married
Never marry anyone who makes conditions, and says she won’t on the
dotted line unless you do something or other.
The golden rule for all women wanting to get married
I’ve had too many friend who’ve married Greek gods and spent the
rest of their leisure time kicking themselves.
The hen possibly didn’t know in the future an Indian Actor will
come who will make Monty look a saint
And Indeed Monty had given the wheel a dangerous twiddle, causing a
meditative hen which had stepped into the road to take to itself the
wings of the dove and disappear over the horizon.
If only all Bosses reposed such confidence in their subordinates
Fire you? I wouldn’t fire you if the President of the United States
and his entire Cabinet fell on their knees and begged me to. If this
son of a Butterwick thinks he can get to first base with me, he’s
very much mistaken `Butterwick’ I shall say to him – after I’ve
had my lunch, of course - `You’re a low hound, and you’ve as much
chance of wheedling me into giving young Bodkin the pink slip as I
have of getting my wife to let me eat a chocolate eclair. Drop dead,
Butterwick” I shall say’
For some, being in command is important for some is as much
important as it is for a fish to be in water
It added to her gratification that she would now be able to go home.
She had found her visit pleasant enough, but she never enjoyed being
a guest and having no say in the running of the establishment. It
cramped her not to be in command.
Thats’ what they call made for each other, because only one of
them, can and gets to do the thinking.
Dolly and Soapy were deep in thought, the former musing on her plan,
the latter trying to make a guess of what that plan could be. It was
to what virtually amounted to an assembly of waxworks that Grayce
re-entered.
You
shouldn’t cheat
an individual so much!!!
`Talk sense, sweetie. Once seen, never forgotten, that map of yours,
so dignified’ said Dolly with touch of wifey pride. `He could pick
you out of any police line-up if the had catracts in both eyes’.
When you have led such a distinguished life that the long arms of
law have always had you in its grasp
Only once in his life had Chimp experienced the thrill these words
sent tingling through his weedy little body. That was when he had
heard the foreman of the jury say `not guilty’ when he had been
expecting to be shipped to Dartmoor for a five-year stay.
Some people are alive because it is a crime to murder themselves
Her only hope of avoiding conversation with him would have been to
run over him in the car, a step which despite its obvious appeal she
thought it would be unwise to take. She did not waiver in the view
she had always held that there was no good Chimp but a dead Chimp,
but she knew how fussy the police can be about these things.
When you are a hen-pecked husband, and you dare not to get kicked
A stronger man might have offered the suggestion that the thing for
her to do was to get out of here and leave him to catch up with his
sleep, but Mr Llewllyn, though resentful, was not quite capable of
it.
`I don’t want any piece of it. Who does she think I am? One of
those dauntless death-defying guys who go into cages at the circus
and look murderous man-eating monarchs of the jungle in the eye and
make them wilt? I wouldn’t have the nerve to talk to Grayce like
that on long-distance telephone. No, sir, not if I was in Paris,
France, and she was in Honolulu.’
You can either be a successful business man or an honest one, the
choice is yours.
You can’t go by what a man in my position promises. You don’t
really suppose, do you, that you can can run a big studio
successfully if you go about keeping your promises all the time? If
you want me to keep a promise, have me put it in writing and take it
to a public notary and get it stamped. And even after that you’ll
have my lawyers to deal with.
