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Word: fingernail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fingernail grip on Broadway in the Theatre Guild's Garrick Gaieties, and was seen briefly in a 1931 flop called Company's Coming. But Broadway, like everything else, was sliding into the Depression. Drawing on all her confidence and energy, Ros got a job with Wee & Leventhal, who operated a cut-rate theatrical circuit covering such Broadway outposts as Brooklyn, Newark and Philadelphia. Her salary was $45 a week, but she more than doubled it by playing better pinochle than Producer Leventhal on their inter-city train rides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Comic Spirit | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Babe stalks the fairway with a conscious sense of theater. She flips king-size cigarettes into the air and catches them nonchalantly in her mouth, then lights her match with her fingernail. Her hawkish, sun-toughened face is frozen for the most part in a thin-lipped mask, but she knows when to let go a wisecrack. When one of her tremendous drives sails out of bounds, she turns to the crowd and explains, "I hit it straight but it went crooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...split logs, using a wedge and a sledge, at their St. Regis, Mont, farm when something struck her in the abdomen. Last week, when Mrs. Johnson's baby girl arrived (by Caesarean section), doctors found nothing wrong with the baby except a steel splinter, as big as a fingernail, stuck in her scalp. Now she is doing fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Nov. 17, 1952 | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...that he seemed to have a thick skin. As the baby grew, his skin darkened and hardened to a black, rough casing over his whole body except the chest, neck and face. It was covered with close-set black bumps; between them the skin was as hard as a fingernail, and if it was bent it cracked and oozed bloodstained serum. Someone cruelly dubbed him "the elephant boy." Doctors said he had been born with ichthyosis (fish-scale disease). Nobody knew its cause or cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Entranced Skin | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...stood up at the society's dinner dance to receive the Order of the Green Dragon from Prince Buu Loc, he did not look like a champion. He keeled over in a dead faint. Mme. de la Füye dug her fingernail into her husband's left pinkie (hsiaochung). He stood up for a moment, then toppled again. By this time, Dr. Alexandre Guillaume had found a gold needle, and jabbed it in De la Füye's hsiaochung until the patient complained: "Hey, that hurts!" Thus revived, De la Füye accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Quick, the Needle! | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

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