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Unexpected Responses in Marriage Proposal
Porter Hollingsway
OK. OK, you win. I'll marry you. How about it?
Lora Mae Hollingsway
Thanks... for nothing.
Porter Hollingsway
Now what kind of an answer is that?
Lora Mae Hollingsway
I don't know. I just felt like it. That's all.
Porter Hollingsway
We'll do all right, kid. We're starting out where it takes most marriages years to get, out in the open. No jokers. You'll see. You've made a good deal, Lora Mae.
Mrs. Finney
Lora Mae, honey, if you want me I'll be over at the Callahans playing...
[walking into the room]
Lora Mae Hollingsway
Happy new year, Ma. We're gonna get married.
Mrs. Finney
...Bingo!
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Confidence in Personal Style
Lora Mae Hollingsway
How do I look?
[who has just finished dressing for a date]
Sadie
If I was you, I'd show more o what I got. Maybe wear somethin with beads.
Lora Mae Hollingsway
What I got don't need beads.
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Love and Transactions in Marriage
Lora Mae Hollingsway
I've been a good wife. The best wife your money could buy.
Porter Hollingsway
Strictly cash and carry.
Lora Mae Hollingsway
Isn't that what you wanted? Isn't that what you told me? "Out in the open. You made a good deal, kid." Did you every stop to think, Porter, that in over 3 years there's one word we've never said to each other, even in fun?
Porter Hollingsway
To you, I'm a cash register. You can't love a cash register.
Lora Mae Hollingsway
And I'm part of your inventory. You can't love that, either.
Porter Hollingsway
I asked you to marry me because I was crazy about you.
Lora Mae Hollingsway
You didn't even ask me!
Porter Hollingsway
I've been a good husband. You got everything you want.
Lora Mae Hollingsway
If you'd only asked me, if you'd only made me feel like a woman instead of a piece of merchandise!
Porter Hollingsway
Did you give me a chance to? All you ever showed me was your price tag.
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New Year's Eve Tensions Rise at Home
Mrs. Finney
Can't we have peace in this house even on New Year's Eve?
Sadie
You got it mixed up with Christmas. New Year's Eve is when people go back to killing each other.
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A Man's Perspective on Strength and Nature
Porter Hollingsway
It's a man's world. Yeah! See something you want, go after it and get it! That's nature. It's why we're made strong and women weak. Strong conquer and provide for the weak. That's what a man's for! Teach our kids that, there'd be more men!
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Debating Values in Commercial Radio
George Phipps
Come here. Sit down for a minute.
George Phipps
Look, Ri, let's put aside my nausea at the idea of working for the Manleighs. Let's put aside my personal likes and dislikes; they're not important. I'm willing to admit that to a majority of my fellow citizens I'm a slightly comic figure: an educated man.
Rita Phipps
Nobody's asking you not to be. Think of the good you could do; maybe raise the standards?
George Phipps
Of commercial radio? What's the phrase, "Wait for your laugh?
George Phipps
I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.
Rita Phipps
And thousands are quitting every year to take jobs that pay them a decent living.
George Phipps
That is unhappily true.
Rita Phipps
Then why not you?
George Phipps
Because I can't think of myself doing anything else!
George Phipps
What would happen, do you think, if we all quit? Who'd teach the kids? Who'd open their minds and hearts to the real glories of the human spirit, past and present? Who'd help them along to the future? Radio sponsors? Comic strips? At that I've been luckier than most. Even without what you earn I've managed to keep our heads above water.
Rita Phipps
It's quite a strain over a period of time with the water lapping at your chin.
George Phipps
And that's where you've been a great help. You made it a lot easier for both of us. I'll admit it has upset my male ego from time to time.
Rita Phipps
And your overdeveloped sense of taste and discrimination which is apparently equaled only by that of Addie Ross!
George Phipps
Let's try to keep Addie out of this one.
Rita Phipps
I am fed up with taste and discrimination!
George Phipps
You're not making sense!
Rita Phipps
I'm fed up with your nobility and wisdom and superiority and your contempt for me and everything I try to do!
George Phipps
You're talking nonsense.
Rita Phipps
Everything I say is nonsense!
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Unspoken Love and Fear of Rejection
Deborah Bishop
Have you any idea how much Lora Mae is in love with you?
Porter Hollingsway
No! How much?
[scornfully]
Deborah Bishop
So much she's afraid to tell you, afraid you'd laugh at her.
Porter Hollingsway
Me laugh? She couldn't say it with a straight face. Lora Mae in love with me? It's all she can do to wait it out.
Deborah Bishop
Wait it out?
Porter Hollingsway
Yeah, like an annuity till it matures. Like a slot machine till it pays off. That's what she's waiting for. A chance to call it off, to collect. "The end of the line. Fares, please." Don't tell me about love and Lora Mae.
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The Irony of Love and Advertising
George Phipps
The purpose of radio writing, as far as I can see, is to prove to the masses that a deodorant can bring happiness... a mouth wash guarantee success and a laxative attract romance.
Mrs. Finney
Good night, Mother dear, and don't wait up." If a daughter of mine ever really talked like that I'd cut her tongue out!
Addie Ross
She won't stay mad at him for long. She's too much in love. Pretty soon she'll be full of self-reproach. Ha ha! Women are so silly.
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Prioritizing Happiness Over Financial Struggles
Mrs. Finney
Of all the times to quit a job, just before Christmas with all the bills due and five months due on the icebox!
Sadie
You got to make up your mind whether you want your kids happy or your icebox paid up.
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Delightful Revelations in Life's Journey
Taglines
It's a sheer delightful revelation!
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Language and Perception in Everyday Conversation
Rita Phipps
People in the show business, you know what I mean, those kind of people always drink scotch.
George Phipps
Well, I know what you mean, but I wish you wouldn't say it in radio English. "That kind", not "those kind".
Rita Phipps
There are men who say "those kind" who earn $100,000 dollars a year.
George Phipps
There are men who say "stick em up" who earn more. I don't expect to do either.
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Mystery of the Wandering Wife
Taglines
All of them wondered which of them wandered!
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The Influence of Addie Ross on Conversations
Deborah Bishop
Why is it that sooner or later no matter what we talk about... we wind up talking about Addie Ross?
Addie Ross
Maybe it's because if you girls didn't talk about me you wouldn't talk at all.
[off voice]
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A Promise of Secrecy and Surprise
Taglines
Promise! You won't peek-and-tell... the ending!
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Wondering and Wandering in Relationships
Taglines
All of them wondered while one of them wandered!
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Defining Personal Perspectives on Relationships
Lora Mae Hollingsway
I've got very definite ideas.
Porter Hollingsway
Like what?
Lora Mae Hollingsway
There's never been anybody in particular. Nobody special.
Porter Hollingsway
Plenty that wanted to, I'll bet.
Lora Mae Hollingsway
What do you think?
Porter Hollingsway
That you've been waiting for that one guy to come along.
Lora Mae Hollingsway
I got very definite ideas.
Porter Hollingsway
What's he got to be like, this one guy?
Lora Mae Hollingsway
Someone who wants to marry me more than anything else in the world.
Porter Hollingsway
You sure got wrong ideas about things.
Lora Mae Hollingsway
They may be wrong, but they're definite
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