He took the reins just below the bit and held them firmly, and it was his turn to smile now.

It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.

`` Well, I was a little bit confused.

The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

Meanwhile, in Moscow, Khrushchev was adding his bit to the march of world law by promising to build a bomb with a wallop equal to 100 million tons of TNT, to knock sense into the heads of those backward oafs who can't see the justice of surrendering West Berlin to communism.

The same month that Alastor was published, Murray sold twenty thousand copies of The Siege Of Corinth, a slovenly bit of Byronism that even Shelley's generosity rebelled at.

`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.

`` This time '', Arlene said, and she even kept on wiggling a little bit while she was just talking, `` you're going to tell me what I am and what I'm doing.

Usually back in Concord by noon, there was just time to get partially thawed out, refuel, and grab a bit of Mrs. Fogg's hot broth before starting the second trip.

This softened the skin so that in the morning when the bandage was removed the corn could be scraped off and a bit of corn plaster put on.

I was held up a bit trying to make a left turn.

It was a fairly modern motel with quite a bit of electrical display in front.

She was a large woman with a frizzled gray poodle cut and a pencil clamped like a bit between her teeth while she hunted and pecked on an old typewriter.

He wasn't a dwarf but he was a bit of a comic figure.

For Felix it was a bit of a stretch to make even that measurement.

The killer, if in our present group, would certainly be interested in knowing that much, and even though with the fingerprint evidence what it was I could see no way he could use this bit of information to improve on his situation, there might always be some way.

Alexandre Livshitz repeated a fantastic technical bit from the closing number, `` Taras Bulba '', but even then there was a substantial number of diehards who seemed determined not to go home at all.

Hadn't Linda been a perfect wife to Bobbie, who was the least bit of a disappointment all these years??

John did find the missing checks and money afterward, and the drive was actually oversubscribed, which was a real bit of luck for the missionaries.

They also sold the exotic Olivetti M20, a very early 16 bit personal computer that was one of the very few systems to use a Z8000 CPU.

Finally a replacement for the aging Z80 processor was being developed in the form of an Intel 8086 board, and additional 512K 16 bit memory boards.

Such replacements of CPU and memory system components were possible because the Aster CT-80 was designed to use a backplane that was designed to support both 8 and 16 bit processors, and used a modular Eurocard based design with slots to spare for expansion.

Now he wondered if it was worth it, having a screwball for company.

It was not uncommon for the early romantic comedy film to also be a screwball comedy film.

The film was followed by Broadway Bill ( 1934 ), another screwball comedy, this one about horse racing.

His most notable project during this period was the ill-fated Something's Got to Give, an updated remake of the 1940 screwball comedy My Favorite Wife.

The film was based on a stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night ( released the same year ) is considered to be the defining film of the screwball comedy genre.

1936 proved to be a big year for Lombard with her casting in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey alongside ex-husband William Powell who refused to do the film unless Lombard was cast opposite him.

Earlier that year, she starred in HouseSitter, a screwball comedy with Steve Martin, which was a commercial and critical success.

Daffy was one of the first of the new " screwball " characters that emerged in the late 1930s to replace traditional everyman characters who were more popular earlier in the decade, such as Mickey Mouse and Popeye.

Following a showing of the screwball comedy Theodora Goes Wild, the audience was not receptive to a drama of epic length.

Everyone you met was a screwball and since that time I learned my lesson and don't intend ever again to make everybody crazy.

Bringing Up Baby was the second of four films starring Grant and Hepburn, the others being Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), and The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), the last three of which belong to a sub-genre of screwball comedy called the comedy of remarriage described by the philosopher Stanley Cavell as Hollywood's crowning achievement.

Some Like It Hot is an American romantic screwball comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft.

He felt that there were " situations set up for one-liners and I felt it was forced — Die Hard mixed with some kind of screwball comedy ".

Supervising animator Ken Duncan stated that she was " based on a ' 40s screwball comedienne " and that he used Greek shapes for her hair (" Her head is in sort of a vase shape and she's got a Greek curl in the back.

The films released during this period were: Feet First, with a similar scenario to Safety Last which found him clinging to a skyscraper at the climax ; Movie Crazy with Constance Cummings ; The Cat's-Paw, which was a dark political comedy and a big departure for Lloyd ; and The Milky Way, which was Lloyd's only attempt at the fashionable genre of the screwball comedy film.

Hopkins also had great success during the remainder of the decade with the romantic screwball comedy The Richest Girl in the World ( 1934 ), the historical drama Becky Sharp ( 1935 ), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, Barbary Coast ( 1935 ), These Three ( 1936 ) ( the first of four films with director William Wyler ) and The Old Maid ( 1939 ).

Rosalind Russell ( June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976 ) was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame.

As James Harvey wrote in his recounting of the era, " No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur.

So much was she part of it, so much was her star personality defined by it, that the screwball style itself seems almost unimaginable without her.

She was re-teamed with Cooper, playing Calamity Jane in Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman ( 1936 ), and appeared as a working girl, her typical role, in Mitchell Leisen's 1937 screwball comedy Easy Living, opposite Ray Milland.

Woody was created in 1940 by Lantz and storyboard artist Ben " Bugs " Hardaway, who had previously laid the groundwork for two other screwball characters, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio in the late 1930s.

Splendor was both a response to the controversy surrounding his relationship with Robertson and an homage to screwball comedies of the 1940s and 1950s.

Madonna had adopted a garish, platinum blond hairstyle for the Who's That Girl movie which she used in the music video ; it was her way of reviving the comedy heroine of the 1930s Hollywood screwball comedies.