Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earl Durand watched the posse come up the canyon and cautiously encircle his hideout. After a time, two riflemen (Orville Linabary, 42; Arthur Argento, 46) started across a clearing directly toward him. They had their nerve with them. He let them come within 50 paces, then quickly gave them each...
Coatesvilie's pick-up station, which was set up on the airport, could just as well have been set up in a pasture, on a building roof or a hilltop, where towns without flying fields will have to set theirs. Between two 40-foot poles, 50 feet apart, stretched...
Roland Young and his ectoplasms are back again, doing some congenial caper-cutting on the French Riviera in United Artists' "Topper Takes a Trip." Those who missed the original "Topper" should neglect their education no longer, but whip right down to Loew's and have their fill of cigarettes being...
1915 Exposition, who curves and glows and actually "breathes" (by virtue of a string attached to the back of her belly, pulled gently at intervals).
Told by an elderly Danish humorist, this modernized version of the Jonah story proceeds in like vein. Its humor comes from breezy folktale slang, matter-of-factness in the miracle scenes, with Jonah fumbling around in the whale's belly like a man looking for a light switch.