Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...straw 'skimmers'." Then, of course, "there was the era of the battered hat," he recalls, "before the fellows stopped wearing hats at all." Riots, or lesser displays of spring fever have also been common. "I remember one, just after they'd finished building Wigglesworth, when somebody there dropped a bag of water on a fried outside, and minutes later, there was a big crowd on Massachusetts Avenue. I was across the street, but the tear gas bombs still...
...Manhattan, Funnyman Jackie Gleason made a flying exit from his TV show. Carrying an electric fan and a bag of flour, Gleason stepped on a slippery spot left by dry ice, catapulted offstage and into the wings. While the CBS switchboard was lit up by calls from anxious fans, he was rushed to Doctors Hospital where examination revealed Gleason had suffered fractures of his right leg and ankle, would be out of action for "several weeks...
Searches later discovered Longenecker buried under about four feet of snow, still in his sleeping bag, amid the icy remains of the igloo. It appeared that a failing ice block from the igloo had previously knocked him unconscious...
...After finishing our shelter, we crawled into our hole in the ice and prepared our sleeping bags. For a comfortable and warm night while sleeping on a block of ice, it's advisable to place as much available insulation as possible between the bag and the ice. I remembered that I had brought along an issue of TIME, and the captain suggested that we use it, page by page, spread out beneath our sleeping bags. I didn't like this idea because I hadn't finished reading the entire copy. We compromised by using the pages that...
Wicked Woman (Greene-Rouse; United Artists) is a reeking little slice of life from the butt end of that infinite salami. A tawdry blonde named Billie Nash (Beverly Michaels) is dumped off a bus, bag & baggage, somewhere in Southern California. Next day she wriggles her way into a job wrestling tables in a local bar. A few days later she is wrestling with the boss (Richard Egan). Between holds, she persuades him to sell the bar from under his wife's nose and run away with her to Mexico. Since the wife's nose is usually stuck...