- What was that?
- Oh, he's a little deaf.
- Pass the goddamn butter, I beg you.
- You read flying magazines?
- Trade journals. On engineering. 1.____________.
- We read books.
- Howard has to read the trade pieces, Mom, because he's designing a new aeroplane.
- Oh, really? Do tell.
- Well... ...it's quite exciting, actually. It's a spy plane for the Air Corps. A twin-engine plane with some... ...I must admit, some rather unique design 2.____________. You see, it has these two booms at the back...
- Luddie built a birdhouse once. You remember that, dear?
- Yes, well, a mere trifle, darling.
- I remember the painting! The painting, it's called May -
- Something. Anyway, Goya's vastly overrated. All the Spaniards are.
- Nonsense! Picasso is sacred.
- I'm a 3.____________.
- It was quite aesthetic, really. A sacred monster. The birds don't care for it much,
- But the bats do.
- I'll bet.
- That's such bunk!
- Do speak up, dear.
- Nothing, nothing, Mrs. Hepburn. Nothing.
- Why did you speak? I can't abide people who speak but have nothing to say.
- Did you go to mechanic school to learn all this airplane guff?
- No, no, I didn't, Luddie. No.
- Well, Howard just flew round the world in three days.
- I think we've had enough about 4.____________.
- And dogs.
- Then how did you make all that money?
- We don't care about money here. Well, that's because you have it.
- Would you repeat that?
- You don't care about 5.____________ because you've always had it.
- How did you make all that...?
- Excuse me, I'm speaking.
- Okay.
- Thank you.
- All right.
- Some of us choose to work for a living. Speaking of which, I have more of that airplane guff to attend to. Excuse me.
- Well, seems a rather high-strung chap.
- You're a fine bunch of bullies, aren't you?