Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, loaded, and likely to leave its imbiber dizzy. In swift succession, Fields falls out of an airplane and into a romance, he rushes an innocent woman to a maternity hospital, and he intimidates every child who comes under his bloodshot eye. The excuse for it all is a bone of a plot which casts him as that improbable character, W. C. Fields. A beery, sneering bum with a face like a malignant baby, Fields pauses only long enough to allow his protege, perennial-adolescent Gloria Jean, to catch up with him. There is no pretence of continuity--the film...
...outstanding performer was Allan Miller, as the Lord Chancellor. Closely molding his style to that of Martyn Greene's, he frolis about the stage without over much ham-bone or jump from character. Starting slowly, he hit his stride in the "Nightmare Song" and earned three encores in the following trio...
...amateur archaeologist ever since he was a boy in the Ozarks, 69-year-old Digger Hancock showed his visitor an array of calcified nuts, leaves and bone fragments. Paleontologist Simpson was fascinated by a giant (450 lbs.), two-tusked hunk of elephant skull which the ex-mailman had dug up twelve years before. Hancock thought he had found the remains of a Tetrabelodon, an early elephant that had roamed the Northwest during the Pliocene period, some 5,000,000 years earlier. Cautiously, Expert Simpson disagreed. To him, the jawbone looked as if it belonged to a Miocene mastodon, the elephant...
...Hancock's find. Last week he announced that his hunch was correct. The huge jawbone surely belonged to a Miomastodon. Next summer Hancock hopes to go back to the barren sagebrush country of eastern Oregon and have another look at his diggings. If his luck holds, the bone detectives may be able to rebuild the beast's entire body...
...following Monday the ten tied an underdog Stevens team 8 to 8 and lost first midfielder Jim Telfer with a pulled ligament in his collar bone. On Tuesday the squad met a fine Princeton team, and lost 16 to 6; behind 10 to 0 at the half, the locals succeeded in tying the Orange 6 to 6 in the second half...