Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found anywhere in the U.S. Built for the low cost of $16,000 per bed, the hospitals were designed for maximum efficiency, minimum operating cost. Each "chain-store" hospital is laid out around a central service core, from which food and drugs move by assembly belt and dumb-waiter to dispatch stations on every floor. A centralized administration and service center at Williamson, W. Va. will keep the books and do the housekeeping, e.g., maintenance, filling of prescriptions, laundry, for the whole system. Thus the cost of administering the medical program has been cut to 5.4% of the $42.8 million...
...farewell; the family is torn by an anguish it can only express in hysteria and anger. The boy himself believes that he is being sent to the priesthood to eke out the family income, and his fate, anticlerical O'Flaherty suggests, is little different from that of the dumb ox. In eleven pages the reader gets a minor masterpiece of human misery...
...Dumb Blonde? The rumors stopped abruptly. Marilyn had taken on a business partner named Milton Greene, a 34-year-old photographer who wears black silk shirts and looks something like an adolescent George Raft. Together they announced the formation of Marilyn Monroe Productions, with Marilyn as president. Her studio decided it was time to holler uncle. In return for Marilyn's services in four pictures to be made in the next seven years, 20th Century-Fox agreed to pay her $400,000-plus what amounted, when all the legal ribbons were untied, to a colossal bonus. And Marilyn...
...only a dumb blonde? When Actress Monroe announced that her first independent production, The Sleeping Prince, would be made with Sir Laurence Olivier as her co-star and director, she began to look suspiciously like a shrewd business woman. "Monroe and Olivier," beamed Director Joshua Logan, "that's the best combination since black and white...
...Slowly she began to trust her own ear, and to play by it. She began to show up at public gatherings in dresses into which she had obviously been sewed, and under which there was just as obviously nothing at all. She made a series of not-so-Dumb-Dora remarks in public that soon added up to a widely quoted Monroe Doctrine of life and love. (Monroe on sex: "Sex is a part of nature. I'll go along with nature." On men: "We have a mutual appreciation of being male and female." On her walk: "I learned...