Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

Is it the gentleman I was expecting from Dallas?

Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable!

It's a French name.

This one here with this paper thing on it.

Now, the Flamingo is used to all kinds of goings on.

The guests are gathering for the poker party.

until I get in. What do you say?

at the Four Deuces. That's much more practical.

but a little piece of eternity dropped in our hands...

How long's this game going to continue?

Blanche, honey, this is Mr. Gonzalez and Mr. Hubbell.

Oh, she's about the same, thanks.

Yes, a big spider. That's where I brought my victims.

Yes, tell one, Blanche. You used to know a lot of good stories.

He hates me, or why would he insult me?

because this other party is somebody...

How's your mother?

How do you think all that sickness and dying was paid for?

We got here in the state of Louisiana what's known as the Napoleonic Code.

I have an acquaintance who works in a jewelry store and he's coming...

- Stella? - Yes, Eunice?

Oh, that's good.

The blind are leading the blind.

And after two, three days they quit, then she goes on to another one.

Just as phony as it... Oh, hello, Stanley.

do you want him?

- My mother is sick, and... - Oh, I'm sorry to hear it. Badly?

I wish you'd stop taking it for granted I'm in something I wanna get out of.

Screaming! Screaming!

- Oh, he's on the road a good deal. - Oh, he travels?

Telegram? What telegram?

HEY MADIEEEEEEE

You seemed gentle.

- What, she got this out of teacher's pay? - Oh, hush.

- All right. - I tried to gloss things over a little...

There you are. I didn't hear you name it!

A 17-year-old kid she got mixed up with.

He's not gonna marry her now.

Look at these fine feathers and furs that she comes to preen herself in here?

A little bit on the primitive side, I should think.

It was because... on the dance floor...

- Did Eunice get the police? - No, she's getting a drink...

Is it because I've been stood up by my beau?

I guess that's what's meant by being in love.

I tore into my trunk to see what I had that was suitable for the tropics.

Just a plain tailored outfit.

- Looks like she's staying a while. - Yeah.

But people like you abused her and forced her to change.

You can remember it by that...

- Ha, ha, ha. - Well, of course, I could be wrong.

Well, thanks. Now the button.

- Is your mother well? - Why?

He smashed all the light bulbs with the heel of my slipper.

This is Western Union.

It was the other little familiarity that I felt obliged to discourage.

I want to rest.

Put it over the light bulb. Will you, please?

Capricorn, the goat!

When I thought my luck was beginning to fail me.

Look, she ain't coming down and she ain't gonna talk to you neither...

- But the burden fell on my shoulders. - Best I could do was make my own living.

I have all those things... Aren't taken away, but grow, increase with the years.

You know why Mitch didn't come, but you won't tell.

I hadn't seen him for a while, then just now this wire...

You gonna shack up here?

I put him in his place. Now he makes up stories about me.

How could you possibly wonder?

I bought some nice clothes to meet all your lovely friends in.

Does that mean...

Who'd you say it was from?

Not with my nerves tonight. Scotch for me, please.

Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle. And you...

- Three bullets, mustache. - Straight! I gotcha!

I want you to look at my figure, you know?

I guess I... Young man.

Why don't someone go to the Chinaman's and bring back a load of chop suey?

- Oh, Blanche. - Yes, it is. Or I wouldn't say it. You...

- He's coming to make an appraisal. - Don't be such an idiot, Stanley.

My youth was gone up the waterspout.

I hope they haul you in, turn a fire hose on you like the last time!

I thanked God for you.

I haven't put on one ounce in 10 years, Stella.

On the other hand, men lose interest quickly, especially when a girl is over...

You got plenty of room to get by me now.

You mustn't wait on me.

and then transfer to one called Cemeteries...

Blanche. You know, it's hot in there with the steam from that bathroom!

I won't stay long, I won't. I promise.

On Saturday nights, they would go in town to get drunk.

Rain from heaven.

- Chocolate? - No, ma'am. Cherry.

Close the curtains before I come out.

Don't you get along with him?

What's the matter, honey? You lost?

Their literary heritage is not what they treasure above all else.

Please... It won't be necessary.

And on the way back, they would stagger onto my lawn and call:

- I'm not sure I did. - Well, that's where she's at, honey.

She knew she was dying when she give me this. A very strange girl, very sweet.

I told you at breakfast. I phoned you at lunch.

- Heh. As a matter of fact, my wire... - As a matter of fact...

I got a sick mother and she don't go to sleep...

You showed me a snapshot of a place with columns...

I was joking. Feebly.

Some of your sister's friends have stayed in the city.

You saw him first in uniform, an officer, not here.

I'm not properly dressed.

Yeah? What happened?

Mitch is a buddy of mine. We was together in the 241 st Engineers.

- No, I better leave it on. - No. I want you to be comfortable.

Are you gonna stay here and insult her?

I was played out. You know what played out is?

She won't live long...

But you were the one that abandoned Tunnel B, not I.

Never arithmetic, sir. Never arithmetic.

Now, since when are you giving me orders?

These fingernails have to be trimmed. Jacket, doctor?

Your sister hasn't turned into a drunkard. She's just all shaken up...

What do you want me to do?

Oh, no, my gracious. What a thing.

You talk so seldom, when you do say anything...

Well, I can't do no more with them.

Well, what do you know?

but all the rest of it.

I have the misfortune of being an English instructor.

I didn't know that stars took up collections.

that he met at a hotel called the Flamingo.

He came to me for help.