Word: broomsticke
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...could cut a man open with a deft touch, lay his vital organs on his chest and put them all back inside again . . . He straightened noses painlessly with a pine broomstick and a hammer. In all things that counted in medicine, he was up to date...
...that they can be modish and highly efficient, and that one of them is attractive enough to ensnare a bright Manhattan publisher. When the publisher discovers she is a witch, he walks out on her-only for her to discover she is now a woman. Hoist on her own broomstick, she has fallen in love...
...elaborate flourishes-and winking and singing as he works-Christopher Fry (see below) sweeps the prosy and the plausible off the boards for an hour. It is the performance of a fellow who not only knows how to handle a broom, but at intervals can ride off on the broomstick...
Ventriloquist Bergen ordered the new $3,000 puppet because he suspects that tall puppets might be more successful on television than knee-sitters like Charlie McCarthy, who originally cost $75. Podine is also more mechanized. Charlie and his stablemate, Mortimer Snerd, are controlled by broomstick handles' in their backs; pushbuttons under Podine's hair make her roll her eyes and bat her flirtatious lashes. Podine has only one dress, will get no more until she clicks...
...posturings might have been conceived by Moliére. It is also peopled by such types as Fletcher Rabbit, whose "mother was a suffragette, and who consequently takes a serious, rather cautious point of view and is a bit of a bore"; Beulah Witch, who was arrested for reckless broomstick driving on Hallowe'en; Cecil Bill, a hysteric in a frightwig; Colonel Cracky ("from the Old South, suh"); Ophelia Ooglepuss and Clara...