Love Business (1931)

Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins: Wheezer Cooper

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Quotes 

• May Wallace Cooper : Well, how's the soup?

  Miss June Crabtree : Oh, it's delicious, only I'm afraid it's a little too rich for me.

  May Wallace Cooper : Oh, I'm sorry.

  Jackie : Tastes like mothballs.

  [Mom kicks Jackie's shin under the table, causing him to swallow a mothball in the soup] 

  Jackie : I swollered it.

  Mary Ann : Tastes like Pa's dress suit smells.

  [Mom repeats shin-kicking business on Mary] 

  Mary Ann : [swallowing a mothball as well]  I did too.

  Wheezer : Tastes more like axle grease.

  [Mom pinches Wheezer] 

  Wheezer : Owwwwwww! Quit pinching me!

• Mary Ann : [seeing Wheezer asleep at the table]  Wheezer! What's the matter with you?

  Wheezer : Aw, I couldn't sleep all night!

  Mary Ann : Couldn't sleep? Why?

  Wheezer : Aw, Jack kept huggin' me an' kissin' me all night, he did.

  Mary Ann : He DID?

  Wheezer : Yeah, an' he kept on saying: "I love you, my darling, I love you, I love you."

  [Wheezer's mom enters with Jackie] 

  May Wallace Cooper : Now, hurry and eat your breakfast or you'll be late for school!

  Wheezer : HEY, DON'T YOU KISS ME!

  Jackie : I'll kiss you with my fist in a minute!

• May Wallace Cooper : Wheezer, what in the world's the matter with you?

  Wheezer : Jack's gonna kiss me.

  May Wallace Cooper : KISS you?

  Wheezer : Yeah, and... and all night he grabbed me and kissed me... an' calls me names.

  May Wallace Cooper : Names? Well, what kind of names?

  Wheezer : "Precious" and "sweetheart" and "tootsie-tootsie."