Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...king crab, which often measures up to five feet between claw tips and weighs about 15 pounds, is tenderer than lobster, less oily than crab. The crabs are caught chiefly in trawl nets dragged over flat bottom areas of the North Pacific...
...control his mild but maniacal head guard (Hume Cronyn), a sadist who plays Wagner while softening up a prisoner with a rubber hose. There is the boozy prison doctor (Art Smith) with a heart of gold and some of the crummiest "philosophy" ever scraped out of the bottom of a cracker barrel. There is the stool pigeon who is efficiently murdered by his fellow convicts; and the steady old hand (Charles Bickford) who grimly joins the rebels when his parole is canceled. The one comparative novelty-Calypso Singer Sir Lancelot, improvising verses about the prisoners-seems like stale...
...interviewed by correspondents. Ernest Hemingway answered his questions by mail. He requested that both TIME's questions & his answers be published "since this has to do with my trade. You can say that when you saw me I was unshaven, needed a haircut, was barefoot, wearing a pyjama bottom and no top." The questions, and his replies...
Scene of the hunt for 20-year-old heiress Anne Straw, missing from her Holderness, N. H., country home for ten days, switched from the bottom of Squam Lake yesterday to here in Cambridge...
...same meticulous protocol applies at banquets and in billing. Hedda and Louella must sit equidistant from the principal speaker. In advertising displays, the problem is impossible to solve by simple geometry. Top billing is better than bottom, and left is better than right; so it has become customary to reproduce only one woman's blurb at a time...