Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

until I get in. What do you say?

The blind are leading the blind.

He's not gonna marry her now.

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

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

He came to me for help.

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

You mustn't wait on me.

do you want him?

I was joking. Feebly.

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

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

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

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

Well, thanks. Now the button.

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

Telegram? What telegram?

HEY MADIEEEEEEE

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

- Is your mother well? - Why?

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

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

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

Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable!

Close the curtains before I come out.

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

Now, since when are you giving me orders?

and then transfer to one called Cemeteries...

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

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

Screaming! Screaming!

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

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

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

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

Capricorn, the goat!

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

How's your mother?

I thanked God for you.

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

Please... It won't be necessary.

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

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

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

What do you want me to do?

This is Western Union.

I didn't know that stars took up collections.

The guests are gathering for the poker party.

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

but all the rest of it.

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

Are you gonna stay here and insult her?

Is it the gentleman I was expecting from Dallas?

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

She won't live long...

It's a French name.

Don't you get along with him?

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

Oh, no, my gracious. What a thing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well, what do you know?

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

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

How could you possibly wonder?

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

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

Just a plain tailored outfit.

Oh, that's good.

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

that he met at a hotel called the Flamingo.

He hates me, or why would he insult me?

I want to rest.

Rain from heaven.

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

Oh, she's about the same, thanks.

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

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

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

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

Yeah? What happened?

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

What's the matter, honey? You lost?

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

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

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

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

Who'd you say it was from?

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

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

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

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

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

This one here with this paper thing on it.

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

I have the misfortune of being an English instructor.

I guess I... Young man.

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

How long's this game going to continue?

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

I'm not properly dressed.

When I thought my luck was beginning to fail me.

You seemed gentle.

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

You got plenty of room to get by me now.

My youth was gone up the waterspout.

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

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

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

because this other party is somebody...

Does that mean...

You gonna shack up here?

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

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

- Stella? - Yes, Eunice?

Never arithmetic, sir. Never arithmetic.

You can remember it by that...

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

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

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

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

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

These fingernails have to be trimmed. Jacket, doctor?

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