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Wiki: "I looked up tontine in the dictionary..."

Wiki: "I understand you have just come back from the Balearics?"

Wiki: "I’ve planned to use it in a Spanish omelette tonight."

Wiki: "... as one by one the iron pillars will start walking past, bearing away the vault of the station like bland atlantes ..."

Wiki: "He remembered the Edith Thompson case."

Wiki: "I expect you’ve seen pictures of her. In the Tatler — with horses, you know. And at point-to-points."

Wiki: " Taxine is a real treat."

DNF: Insufferable.

Wiki: "... the Count would ask the young lady with the light blue apron for a mille-feuille (how aptly named) and watch with admiration as she used a teaspoon to gently nudge the delicacy from a silver spade onto a porcelain plate."

16. Old Acquaintance, 3 stars. Husband is jealous even on wife's deathbed.
17. The Frog Prince, 3 stars. Poor man tries to marry money, is too late.
18. Season of Mists, 3 stars. Man romances twins with a ridiculous scheme.
19. Great Possibilities, 3 stars. Wannabe pyromaniac can't find the right house to burn.
20. Without Benefit of Galsworthy, 3 stars. Rich idiot burns his bridges for a maid that doesn't love him.

11. Squirrels Have Bright Eyes, 2 stars. Short man loves a big game huntress.
12. Halfway to Hell, 2 stars. Man treats himself to the best for a week, kills himself.
13. The Lady on the Grey, 3 stars. Creep goes looking for his friend, or some maids to grope.
14. Incident on a Lake, 3 stars. Harridan does her best to ruin husband's travel plans.
15. Over Insurance, 3 stars. Couple buys life insurance, gets hangry.

06. Fallen Star, 2 stars. Demon sexually harasses an angel.
07. The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It, 3 stars. Men make a new friend with a controversial past.
08. Three Bears Cottage, 3 stars. Resentful husband strongly begrudges his wife the larger egg.
09. Pictures in the Fire, 2 stars. Scriptwriter outsmarts a rich devil.
10. Wet Saturday, 2 stars. Family finds a scapegoat policeman to cover for a woman's crime.

01. Bottle Party, 3 stars. Man buys a genie, quickly bores of his own wishes.
02. De Mortuis, 4 stars. Friends jump to conclusions about a husband digging in basement.
03. Evening Primrose, 3 stars. Poet decides to live in a department store.
04. Witch's Money, 2 stars. An artist makes the French countryside go money mad.
05. Are You Too Late or Was I Too Early?, 2 stars. Dramatic man falls in love with a footprint.

Wiki: "A foundation of the tea olive strewn over the bottom, cool and green."

Wiki: "It would be in New York City or else in a foreign country. Famous people would point at her — Carole Lombard and Arturo Toscanini and Admiral Byrd."

Wiki: "Even now perhaps nobody rings the bell of a house in Wimpole Street without trepidation."

13. The Calm, 3 stars. Men get chippy in a barbershop.
14. Popular Mechanics, 3 stars. Couple wrangle for possession of a baby.
15. Everything Stuck to Him, 4 stars. Tired new parents with a fussy baby have a small fight.
16. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, 4 stars. Two tipsy couples discuss what is/isn't love.
17. One More Thing, 2 stars. Family is fed up with man's drinking, kick him out of the house.

09. After the Denim, 3 stars. Husband is infuriated by young couple taking "his" spot at bingo.
10. So Much Water So Close to Home, 3 stars. Wife suspects husband after his lackadaisical attitude toward finding a dead body.
11. The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off, 2 stars. Man encourages work friend to stock pond with desirable fish.
12. A Serious Talk, 3 stars. Spiteful ex-husband tries to ruin Christmas.

05. I Could See The Smallest Things, 3 stars. Woman wakes up next to her drunk husband, watches the neighbor kill slugs.
06. Sacks, 2 stars. Book salesman listens to his father's affair sob story.
07. The Bath, 2 stars. Birthday boy gets hit by a car.
08. Tell the Women We're Going, 4 stars. Married guys blow off steam, try to pick up some teenagers on the side.

01. Why Don't You Dance?, 2 stars. Young couple buy a bunch of furniture from a guy's front yard.
02. Viewfinder, 3 stars. Abandoned husband hires door to door hustler to photograph him.
03. Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit, 3 stars. Man recalls a chaotic time when everyone else had some on the side.
04. Gazebo, 3 stars. Couple managing a motel get drunk and have a serious talk after the husband carries on with a maid.

Wiki: "Because when the men were gone at last and he descended, emerged, into the level, jonquilcolored sun and went to the kitchen door, he didn’t ask for food at all."

10. The Salvation of Me, 2 stars. Sad mechanic dreams of the windy city.
11. In the Dry, 2 stars. Sad trucker visits his former foster family.
12. First Day of Winter, 2 stars. Sad caretaker resents his brother for refusing to take in their parents.

06. The Mark, 2 stars. Sad wife misses her brother on a creepy incestuous level.
07. The Scrapper, 2 stars. Sad ex-boxer breaks his promise and fights for $200
08. The Honored Dead, 2 stars. Sad draft dodger thinks about his enlisted dead friend.
09. The Way It Has to Be, 2 stars. Sad girlfriend travels to Texas with boyfriend to go kill some guy.

01. Trilobites, 3 stars. Sad farm boy loses his girl, dad, and land. Should be a country song.
02. Hollow, 3 stars. Sad coal miner loses his girl (and TV) to a coworker.
03. A Room Forever, 2 stars. Sad sailor is stuck on new years, sleeps with a young hooker.
04. Fox Hunters, 2 stars. Sad mechanic doesn't fit in, tries to shoot a dog.
05. Time and Again, 4 stars. Sad snow plow driver wants his hogs to eat well.

Wiki: "He was only a hod carrier then."

Wiki: "The missions won’t let him in because he is full of heat, so this jake-legger has to chase his papers tonight."

10. The Goldbrick, 2 stars. The army finds an unmovable brick, wants to bomb it.
11. The Ifth of Oofth, 2 stars. Scientist dabbles in the fifth dimension, shoots his eye out.
12. The Scholar's Disciple, 2 stars. Lazy academic makes a deal with a demon to publish enough papers to land a cushy job.
13. Far From Home, 2 stars. Man finds a whale in the public pool.

05. Out of Luck, 2 stars. Painter sees people in the same outfit everywhere.
06. Echo, 2 stars. Man wakes up in a different body in the future.
07. Sitting in Limbo, 1 star. More mother incest fantasies in purgatory.
08. The Other End of the Line, 3 stars. Man talks to himself in the future, gives himself gambling tips.
09. The Big Bounce, 2 stars. Bumbling scientist invents a super bouncy ball, makes a huge one.

01. Rent Control, 3 stars. Couple become obsessed with staying young, fit, and nonconfrontational.
02. A Visit From Mother, 1 star. Grown man relives incestuous fantasies about his mother when her ghost comes to visit.
03. Daddy, 1 star. Pervert fights with his dead father over the love of his creepy mother.
04. The Apotheosis of Myra, 2 stars. Husband murders wife, the planet absorbs her personality to pester him.