Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lampoon's April "Literary Dig eat" Issue that really roused the ire of the Boston police. The Issue, banned for "desecration of the flag," depicted on the cover a tipsy Washington crossing the Delaware with the Caption underneath, "Sit down, you're rocking the boat." Although many issues were confiscated, Lamp ran a second printing and sold hundreds. The parody's price. sky-rocketed--as $12 a copy in New York city...
...latest dig was made in 1950 by Stuart Piggott, professor of prehistoric history at the University of Edinburgh. In untouched areas he uncovered the bits of charcoal that were sent to Professor Libby in Chicago...
...doing for movies today what it did for theatres at the century's turn -- saving them. When writers get lost in the cliches of their trade, and find it easiest to guide well-known characters through well-known roles, then producers give their writers an extended vacation and dig into their files under...
Half of Britain's economic troubles would be solved if only its miners would dig 10% more coal...
...Digs Whimsy? Such pictures as the Ma & Pa Kettle series (starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride) and the Francis (the talking mule) films are typical of Goldstein's successes. In all his major efforts, the gags are fast and broad, the chases wild and merry. As Goldstein himself puts it: "Nobody likes my pictures but the public." For the more mature trade, Goldstein has turned out such pictures as The Egg and I and numerous westerns. But he avoids sophisticated comedy. Once, turning down a script, he explained to Writer Don McGuire: "Don, you dig whimsy. I dig whimsy...