Suds in Your Eye [Hardcover]

Mary Lasswell (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T); First Edition edition (June 1942)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 039507892X
• ISBN-13: 978-0395078921
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,581,071 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Love You Mesdames Feeley, Rasmussen and Tinkham, January 12, 2000

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Christopher Howse (Wichita, Kansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Suds in Your Eye (Hardcover)

In 1956 I bought a used copy of this book in Colorado Springs. It wasn't a wonderful moment in my life and why I bought this little, worn book I cannot say. It might have taken me ninety minutes to read and the effect has held on for the last forty-four years and I expect it to retain its hold forever. Some years after that my Aunt played Mrs. Feeley in San Diego, and did so for several years. I was thrilled and she was amazed that I not only knew the character, but knew it better than she did. Read this book if you can get hold of it and be nourished, amused, amazed ( their brand of inventiveness is strangely missing today ) and wish you could pull up to the table and share a six-pack. Skoal!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Humerous tale of 3 singleminded women befor ww2, March 11, 1999

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dsnyguy (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Suds in Your Eye (Hardcover)

Mary Lasswell's 'Suds In Your Eye', is the comic tale of three lonely women, Mrs. Feely, the owner of the junkyard with a wall made of beer bottles, Miss. Tinkham, an unemployed teacher, and Mrs. Rasmussen, A Norwegian women who could make a wonderful meal with the simplest of ingrediants, who are united in the first of what became a very popular series during and after world war II. Miss Tinkham, a very shy spinster, and Mrs. Rasmeussen, who is abandoned by her children, come to room with Mrs. Feely in her Junk Yard called Noahs Ark, in San Diego before the War. They embark on several adventures and really become a family. The book illustrated by the late George Price, is a hilareous romp and is not afraid to be a bit racy for its time. The book had several sequels, including 'Tooner Trolly', was turned into a broadwya play and even inspired Mrs. Lasswell, A navy wife, to create a cookbook as written by Mrs. Rasmussen, 'Mrs, Rasmussen' Book of one Armed Cookery' -the other arm of course would be around a bottle of beer. Stories with the three ladies appeared into the 10980's in the AARP magazine.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love and Laughter don't need to be Expensive, July 6, 2002

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Nancy L. Nash "fanaticbooks" (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Suds in Your Eye (Hardcover)

I would rate this even higher if they allowed it. This first book in the series introduces you to three loveable, beer-drinking ladies. They believe in helping others and good old down home living. Their love of "class" will have you roaring with laughter. And their caring of others will give you warm fuzzies. Be prepared to want to raise a glass or two as well as go off your diet. The food descriptions are wonderful. And what they can do with a nickel will floor you. Truly an uplift to the spirits.