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It was only a little and it was meaningless, but it could have been avoided. I always wished that it had. Whenever I would speak to Mrs. Moskowitz, I would say, “Don't you think something can be done?”

She would say, “Oh, no, you can't say anything to Katie about her clothes. After all, you can't put your finger on anything that's bad, can you?”

I would say, “No, it just doesn't look good in the pictures.”

She said, “But you know ‘So-and-so' dresses her and they have perfect confidence in her. You'll just disturb her and make her cry. That would make Al feel bad, and what's the sense?”

Mrs. Smith wasn't highly emotional. She just cried the way nice, simple, little women do. Their husbands look after them and if anybody calls them bad names, they cry. It doesn't mean they're emotional. You cry a few tears in a childish way, rather than in a deeply tragically emotional way. She wasn't emotional. She never threw any stunts, tantrums or anything. She would have felt bad, though, and he would have felt bad.

They said she drank too much, that she was drunk in night clubs, was coarse and vulgar, had no breeding, and had no education. She was really a very well-educated woman.





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