Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crammed with detail-witty, revealing, evocative, sometimes contrived but always effective. Much of it, as the camera roams the Desmond mansion, sustains the mood of a good ghost story: a pet chimpanzee is solemnly buried by candlelight; the wind sighs through a pipe organ; rats scurry across the bottom of an empty swimming pool. The modern Hollywood is reflected in a gallery of expertly drawn types. Actress Desmond's Hollywood of the past comes alive in the fantastic trappings of her house and in her visiting bridge companions ("the Waxworks"), played by Hollywood Oldtimers Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson...
...nosed out of New York harbor into a collision with the inbound Danish freighter Colombia (TIME, July 10). As water poured through a 38-foot hole between the Excalibur's No. 2 and No. 3 holds, Captain Samuel Groves rang up full speed, beached her on the mud bottom off Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Within an hour all 114 passengers had been taken off and American Export Lines began a furious race to get the Excalibur ready for sea again. In 39 days of continuous work, the line spent $1,000,000 on salvage operations, shipyard repairs', hotel bills...
...questions asked. In that year ice cream was limited to ten flavors, and there was an abrupt end to such goods as metal hair curlers, refrigerators, radios and beer in cans. In Washington, the Wafflebottom Club was founded-for businessmen who spent long hours warming cane-bottom chairs in the anterooms of Government agencies. The drinking public discovered to its horror that every blast of a 16-in. gun consumed 60 precious gallons of alcohol in its powder...
Cinemactress Betty Grable, 33, paused in her work on a new musical (Call Me Mister) long enough to reveal the secret for Hollywood success. Every girl, said Betty, who once pranced in the chorus herself, should "start at the bottom and work...
...trading post to another, picking up each other's guesses on whether credit controls, allocations and perhaps some cutbacks in civilian production were in the offing. The market, already jittery from the war, took another sharp nosedive. The Dow-Jones industrial average dropped eleven points, to a bottom of 197.44, setting the market back to the level of six months...