Word: flea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere along the line from Algeria to Tunisia to Sicily to Italy, Noles was bitten by a sand flea. In southern Italy he came down with aches, chills and fever. Doctors said it was malaria, and dosed him with quinine. Off & on, after settling down again at home in La Grange, Ga., Veteran Noles kept getting his old aches and fevers. He had no pep, lost...
...French fleas?" came the equally chill voice of the publicity man for the French Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer. "Has some new method, then, been discovered for establishing the paternity of a flea? Do these fleas, perhaps, speak with a French accent? To speak of French fleas? Monsieur, is that not going, quite possibly...
...Burning Glass. In Hollywood, which has long since proved its theory that even a flea can be taught to act a little, Elizabeth Taylor is a sure star of the future. Never has there been a time of such opportunity. For as age has dulled dozens of bright stars, custom has staled scores more. The public-though still attentive to such screen personalities as Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Errol Flynn, Irene Dunne, Greer Garson, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Mickey Rooney, Loretta Young-no longer rushes by the millions to see a picture merely because one of them...
...Communist settled confidently into the witness chair in Manhattan's federal courtroom last week and started his familiar spiel. Witness Anthony Krchmarek, a minor Communist functionary from Ohio, had come to lend his assurance that the party would not harm even a flea, much less overthrow a Government. He soon found himself talking into the teeth of some expert testimony from a fellow Ohioan: William Cummings, a Toledo auto worker who had spent six years among the Communists as an undercover agent...
Before setting off with wife Eleanor Holm on a four-month round-the-world tour, Columnist Billy Rose explained: "My world has been bounded by the flea circus on 42nd Street and the statue up at Columbus Circle, and I figure it can do my perspective nothing but good to take a hinge at how the other 99.9 percent lives...