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  • nosirrah Songs 1 (A - K)
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  • nosirrah Songs 2 (L - Z)
    • Ladies in Girdles
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    • Dear Kindly Samuel Dimmick
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  • nosirrah Cryptic Solver's Manual
    • Introduction
    • Starting Off
    • A Curate's Egg
    • What a Clanger!
    • What is a Cryptic Clue?
    • Rules for Cryptic Clues
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  • Ladies in Girdles 2
Best Female Lead
Janet Gaynor’s in Heaven For this morning at 7 A Street Angel at Sunrise Gave her a big surprise But Mary Pickford Picked up her statuette For acting bored In Coquette Norma Shearer is saucy in The Divorcee Marie Dressler is a minx in Min and Bill Helen Hayes in The Sin of Madelon Claudet Shows enough to give any boy a thrill Morning Glory for Kathy Hepburn Night-ly Happen-ings for Colbert Dangerous Davis causes heartburn Luise Rainer feels hurt She’s classed Great in Ziegfeld But only Good in Earth Davis discovers herself Jezebell-ed Leigh’s Gone with the Wind that’s expelled Can Ginger Roger’s Kitty Foyle Joan Fontaine’s Suspicion? Can Garson and Mrs Miniver toil To get Jenny Jones in the right position To sing The Song of Bernadette? Can Bergman get the Gaslight set? Can Crawford and Mildred Pierce de Havilland’s insouciance (‘To Each His Own’ says she)? The Young Farmer’s Daughter can act quite fierce Jane Wyman and Belinda can show defiance And de Hav- illand can have The Heiress over for tea Judy Holliday Wasn’t Born Yesterday A Streetcar’s Named Desire for Leigh Shirley Booth cries ‘Come Back, Little She- ba, you’re the one I want to see’ Hepburn, Audrey Takes a Roman Holiday Kelly plays The Country Girl Gracefully Anna Magnini has a Rose Tattoo Anastasia Bergman wants one too Woodward reveals The Three Faces of Eve Hayward screams ‘I Want to Live!’ Signoret has a Room at the Top with a view Taylor spreads Butter in the field at 8 Loren and Two Women are fashionably late Bancroft Works Miracles with a portrait Patricia Neal sHud-ders and insists on calling Julies, Andrews ‘Poppins ’ and Christie ‘Darling ’ Taylor’s not Afraid of V. Woolf at all Kate Hepburn can Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner And The Winter Lion with Streisand’s Funny Girl Makes her a joint winner Maggie Smith solo has a wonderful time Calculating Miss Jean Brodie’s Prime Glenda Jackson says Women in Love With Jane Fonda are somewhat Klute Minnelli’s Cabaret can give Jackson A Touch of Class, you beaut But Burstyn makes Alice Live Not Here, but elsewhere in a Ute Fletcher flees the Cuckoo’s Nest Network works for Dunaway Keaton hears Annie Hall attest Fonda’s Coming Home to stay With Sally Field and Norma Rae Spacek’s not Sissy as the Coal Miner’s Daughter Hepburn makes it 4 On Golden Pond Streep wants Sophie’s Choice to exclude slaughter MacLaine’s Terms of Endearment include ‘I’m fairly fond’ Field Places in the Heart of the cauldron For Geraldine Page to see A Bountiful Trip to a Lesser God’s Children Mothered by Matlin, Marlee Moonstruck Cher is most bemused When Jodie Foster fronts The Accused And constantly Driving Miss Daisy Drives Jessica Tandy crazy Kathy Bates feels Misery When Foster’s Lambs are Silent And Emma Thompson tickles Howard’s End The Piano Hunter’s hosiery And Lange’s Blue Sky scent Mask the Dead Man Walking round Sarandon’s bend Francis McDormand to walk has a Far go Helen Hunt’s As Good As a bank Shakespeare’s in Love with Gwyneth Paltrow But Boys Don’t Cry over Hilary Swank Julia Roberts jilts Erin Brockovich And Halley Berry at the Monster’s Ball Nichole Kidman wants to be a witch But can’t spare The Hours to be on call Charlize Theron puts on weight Eating burgers at the Monster Fete Hilary Swank is rank As a Million Dollar Baby But Rees Witherspoon says maybe ‘I Can Walk the Line’ Helen Mirren is royal as The Queen While Marion Cotillard Finds it hard In ‘en Rose - La Vie’ Kate Winslet is a Reader As a outback leader Sandra Bullock is on The Blind Side naturally Portman, Natalie Is a Black Swan Meryl Streep embodies The Iron Lady But Jennifer Lawrence’s Silver Lining Is more shady Cate Blanchett must get made By Blue Jasmine Julianne Moore is not sure She is Still Alive Trying to disprove Brie Larson has Room to move Emma Stone is in La La Land Trying to understand Frances McDormand’s Three Billboards which rate Olivia Colman’s Favourite Renée Zellweger drops Punch for Judy Frances McDormand goes to Nomadland as a dunce Jessica Chastain has Eyes for Tammy Faye to go While Michelle Yeoh Has Everything Everywhere All at Once What delight it can bring To hear Emma Stone say ‘You Poor Thing’ And Mikey Madison can adore a Stint as AnoraJessieBuckleyWhat a starletStars in Hamnet

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