Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final judging for the championship of the show, Storm was matched against a Skye terrier which looked like a dust mop, a prissy poodle, a sad-eyed bloodhound, a self-conscious Irish setter and a pudgy pug. It was hardly a contest. Storm, sleek and cocky, paraded around with the aplomb of a high-fashion model. He stood stolidly as the judge solemnly inspected his teeth, eyes, haunches and toenails. Some 10,000 dog fanciers were on tenterhooks as the judge walked over to where all the silverware was. Dramatically, at just the proper moment, the judge pointed at Storm...
...odors . . . The action of green grass has no more to do with the action of processed chlorophyll than the action of coal tar has to do with the well-known coaltar derivative aspirin. One would not expect coal miners to be free of headaches because they inhale coal dust. Nor should anyone . . . expect a grass-eating goat to be free of odor...
...fuse of the bomb was the unexpected public interest in depth pictures. When the recent big box-office returns started coming in from 3-D movies, the rush began for the vaults and the warehouses to dust off and improve 3-D equipment. The basic principles of three-dimensional films have been kicking around for more than 25 years-e.g., audiences back in 1937 put on red & green glasses to watch Pete Smith's "audioscopiks...
Blame-Weary. In Albuquerque, Purcell Felter got a divorce after declaring in a sworn statement from Japan that he joined the army to get away from a hypercritical wife: "I was blamed for the dust storms, the heat, the cold and all the natural phenomena indigenous to Albuquerque. I just couldn't take it any more...
Flamboyant imagination is not necessary to fly with the First Pixie Squadron to the Technicolor world of Never Land. Tinkerbelle, a fetching sprite in a clinging Jantzen, sprinkles the Darling family with so much pixie dust that ample remains for the audience. From there on, Indians, Pirates, songs, and the Boys make everyone wish they were seeing the show for the first time. Maude Adams and Jean Arthur, after all, never really could fly; this...