Word: blount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gimmick was given a new boost by Dr. Walter P. Blount, an orthopedic surgeon. He called for a revival of the walking stick, which he said prevents fatigue, lessens stress on the joints. To make canes more appealing, they should be outfitted with flashlights, umbrellas, bottles (although "hidden swords are no longer permissible...
...children. The $16,000 question: Give the full names of the two publishers of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays and the year it was published. O'Hanlon looked stunned. His wife bit her lip. After 30 seconds, the scholarly cop answered : Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, in 1623. He was right. He has another week to decide whether he will risk...
...hottest personalities in Hollywood last week were neither blonde and seductive, nor tall, dark and handsome. They were a couple of shrewd, bouncy septuagenarians with white fringes around their bald heads. Producer Samuel Goldwyn, 73, was hard at work on the Runyonesque musicomedy Guys and Dolls. Cecil Blount DeMille, also 73, was producing and directing a supercolossal remake of his first (1923) The Ten Commandments. These two movies, bossed by two old experts, were the most expensive and most talked about in town, and both were a long-way from The Squaw Man, Hollywood's first feature length film...
Senator McCarthy looked at the charts, charged that they were phony, accused the Army of giving Schine "black marks" for the same routine events that were indicated in white or omitted on the average man's chart. When Ryan's aide, 1st Lieut. John B. Blount, who was wounded on Old Baldy in Korea, followed his chief to the stand, McCarthy asked him about the black and the white. Blount's answer rocked the hearing room with laughter. Said he: "In my opinion, the reason that it was done was just for comparative purposes, just like...
...trouble with moviemaking today, said Cecil Blount (The Greatest Show on Earth) DeMille, is taxes. Taking taxes into consideration, he decided he could save money by closing down Cecil B. DeMille Productions. But, lest moviegoers think they might never again see a new DeMille epic, the producer-director added that he had no intention of actually retiring from picture making...