Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local high school, and that is the time of life that blossoms forth for the townie. We all happen to meet the students in the same way. It's the same story. . . . "I was down by the river or walking down the square . . . when the most adorable fellow came over to me and said" . . . You know the rest. Why go on? . . . And after she meets one she meets them all. . . . It's the same story year in and year out. "My last year's roommate left this telephone number," or "I've heard so much about you, gosh...
...there is to Charlie is that original red-wigged block of wood, and an oft-replaced body inside which is a trigger with which Bergen makes the little fellow leer, bow, grimace. He has a standin, used in cinema work and for some publicity stills; a wardrobe that includes a supply of monocles, two full dress suits, a supply of starchy linen, ten hats size 3½, including several toppers, two berets; a Sherlock Holmes outfit, jockey silks, a cowboy suit, a French Foreign Legion uniform, a gypsy costume ("It's the Gypsy in me"). He wears baby-size...
...great W. C. Fields, whom Charlie (Bergen) consistently outgagged, whether Fields stuck to the script or not during their five and a half months together on the program, really wanted to demolish Charlie (not Bergen). There was a genuine, jealous glint in the old fellow's eye when he once threatened: "I'll carve you into a Venetian blind." "Oh Mr. Fields," minced Charlie, "you make me shudder...
...Theodoric, Bishop of Cervia, Italy, an unsung surgical hero of the Middle Ages, insisted that infection and formation of pus, contrary to popular medical opinion, was not necessary for successful healing of a wound. He insisted that wounds be kept clean and dry. So fellow practitioners-who continued for hundreds of years the practice of searing wounds with boiling oil, covering them with such things as bacon, earthworms, rabbit fur, oil of lilies and a boiled concoction of young whelps "just pupp'd"-denounced him as a heretic. Theodoric, says Dr. Graham, was "as great an original thinker...
...Women like me ... are the safest members of society," declared Novelist Pearl S. (for Sydenstricker) Buck to her fellow alumnae of Randolph-Macon College. But women who do not employ their talents and their education, "they ought to be despised...