Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more about cornadas (horn wounds) than Don Luis Gim& #233;nez Guinea. He has written the book, classifying them according to the placement and type of horn-blunt or sharp, wide or narrow-spaced, projecting high or forward. Among the worst are wounds caused by splintered horns, which usually fan out in at least three directions, destroying a wide area of tissue...
...stage debut in 1916. Seeking his fortune in movies after the war, he clicked in Italy, where Henry King took him to be Lillian Gish's leading man in The White Sister. It whisked him to stardom, sent him up the matinee-idol trail (Lady Windermere's Fan, Romola, Stella Dallas) that culminated in Bean Geste. Entering talkies as Bulldog Drummond (1929), Colman soon established the cultured air of weary British dignity that became as crisp and negotiable as a sterling note. His best-known films followed in the late '30s and early '40s-A Tale...
...right in my book," said one fan, "she sure can drive...
...What may prove to be one of the most expensive fouls in baseball history was a long fly by a Milwaukee batter one day in 1955. In the scramble to catch it, a fan knocked down Mrs. May Lee, 69, and broke a couple of her ribs. The Braves refused to pay May Lee's $100 hospital bill on the ground that fans assume certain risks when they buy their tickets. Last week the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld an award of $3,675 to Mrs. Lee on the ground that the Braves' County Stadium ushers were negligent...
...every Pepsi fan knows, behind every successful man (Pepsi's 1958 earnings are up), there is a devoted woman-one with more bounce to the ounce. This week, their apartment decorated and their debts to Pepsi paid, Mr. and Mrs. Steele were planning a six-weeks sales swing through Africa and the Middle East. Said he: "I hate to use my wife to help me sell, but let's face it-she does. On these trips most of our business is done through top officials of governments. At those high levels Crawford is fabulous...