Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. The job took six months and almost put him in the hospital. The banks of arc lights used for color film created murderous heat and he worked clad in long underwear, football shoulder pads and lion skin. It took two hours a day to apply his tricky makeup, and in every scene he was dependent, not only on his own art, but on a lackey who perched above him with a fishing rod and manipulated his tail...
Barrel of Monkeys. The blonde's name was Barbara Payton, 25, who has been playing around Hollywood for three years in & out of grade-B pictures. Her latest is called The Bride of the Gorilla. What she mainly does is to run, scantily clad, through jungles while an ape-man pursues her. It also came natural for her to be seen cooing with Franchot Tone in the places where Hollywood people go to be seen cooing with each other. During a court battle with his exwife, another blonde named Jean Wallace, Tone was asked about Barbara. "How many times...
Walkout in Reverse. On the appointed day, right on schedule, the spokesmen for 49 nations of the non-Communist world walked one by one to a bright yellow modernistic table on the stage and, using gold pens, put their signatures to the peace treaty. Last, clad in the only morning coat and striped trousers at the conference, came 72-year-old Premier Shigeru Yoshida of Japan. His face set, he scrawled his name in Japanese characters. A decade after Pearl Harbor, a generation after Japan began its career of aggression in Manchuria, almost a century after Commodore Matthew Perry opened...
...afoul of a fleshy Nero, are finally thrown into the arena where they organize the gladiators for a rousing game of American-style football. Sample scene: Nero's seductive wife Poppaea (played by Italy's top pin-up girl Silvana Pampanini) lolling in a vast Roman bath, clad in a flesh-colored bathing suit...
None of this seemed to invalidate the regretful conclusions of the board. But it made it difficult not to feel that the fault rested as much with the Army as with the grey-clad youths who faced dismissal. The Army's botched handling of the dismissal itself left cadets confused about their status and their future. Technically, their dismissal was "under honorable conditions," though in fact they were branded otherwise. The cadets' case was best put by Harold Loehlein, honor cadet, captain-elect of the 1951 football team, arid president of the first class. Said...