Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leave the cover blank...
Experienced. In Grand Prairie, Texas, while filling in an application for work at the Chance-Vought aircraft plant, an applicant came to the section on military background, answered the "Dates in Service" blank with: "Girls from Memphis, Tenn. to Hot Springs...
They play the mysteries of darkest Africa to the hilt. The camera pans over hundreds of blank and weirdly painted native faces; the soundtrack features native drums, beating endlessly; and there are cannibals, shricking animals, and a full complement of snakes, spiders, and other slimy things with legs which crawl. Since the majority of the actors are real natives, their own inscrutability adds to the general air of mystery...
...models are put up in a yellow trailer standing a few yards from the house. He paints them on couches "because they chatter less in that position." The models serve merely as springboards for Kitchens' cheerful, elegant and curiously impersonal art. On canvas their faces are almost blank and their bodies have more paint than flesh about them. But the paint is beautifully arranged...
Mory's is still a private club, and about as private as the men's room in Grand Central. Almost any upperclassman can join, by countersigning two friends who are members and waiting until his application blank acquires the proper degree of mustiness...