Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second attempt in as many pictures to play it straight. If he had succeeded, The Great Diamond Robbery might have been an even more amusing picture than Half a Hero (TIME, Nov. 9). Instead, the stiff upper lip of a surprisingly mature wit goes into a maudlin flap of baby talk before the end of the first reel. Nevertheless, the plot is so neatly stacked, and the rest of the players so well handled by Director Robert Z. Leonard, that the moviegoer gets a pretty good deal...
...from injury - or from the surgeon. Several ways of getting at it have been devised, but none is fully satisfactory. Dr. Picaza reported that he followed the general lines of the Swedish method-In a two-hour operation at the Institute of Radium of Mercedes Hospital, he lifted a flap of bone almost three inches square from Senora R.'s forehead. With the frontal lobe of the brain pushed aside, he worked past a barrier of optic nerves to cut the stalk by which the pituitary hangs from the hypothalamus...
...leave you with a limp." Mr. Clarkson told Terry, but the boy, then n, thought it was worth while, and his mother agreed. So he spent six weeks in an uncomfortable position, with his fingerless left hand joined to the toes of his left foot by a skin flap. Then Surgeon Clarkson amputated the toes and grafted them in place of the missing fingers. That was 4½ years...
...from Frederick Almy '80 to Wetherbee, then chairman of the undergraduate literary committee of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the College, asking for tickets to the literary exercises in Sanders Theatre. Attached to the letter is a scrap of paper which Wetherbee says was "tucked beneath the flap of the envelope as though it had been an afterthought," the message read--"Have you ever discovered a Transmittindum in your room, a parchment scroll with the names of all the occupants of the room, in an augur hole in the top of one of the doors. My brother occupied...
Imagine the boys' surprise when they found that their new horse was a white elephant! But he was a very nice young elephant, so they decided to train him. Before they could even try though, he gave one flap of his mighty white wings, and flew off into the sun, back to his seven masters...