Word: flea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Panurge has a flea in his ear who keeps suggesting that he get married. With Pantagruel and a bawdy monk named Friar John of the Funnels, Panurge sets out for India to consult the Oracle of the Holy Bottle on the matter. On the way they encounter a race of people whose noses are formed like the ace of clubs, and a nation that eats & drinks nothing but wind...
Sulphur is one of the mainstays of U.S. industry. It is needed for everything from steel, fertilizer and rubber, to paper, rayon and flea powder. It is also one of the most plentiful of raw materials; in its most common form-pyrites deposits (sulphur mixed with other materials)-millions of tons are found above ground all over the world. Yet last week the U.S. and the whole Western bloc of nations were short of sulphur...
...excitement was stirred up by tiny Banderillera Angelina Medina, whose sobriquet is La Pulga (Flea). Having done a passable job of sticking her paper-twined darts into the bull, Angelina suddenly realized that the beast was coming after her. She turned to scramble over the wooden barrier...
...went hunting one afternoon a fortnight ago. He shot three rabbits, brought the bag home to his wife to cook, sat down to supper. About four days later, he began to complain of pains in his stomach. Last week Hunter White was dead. His illness: bubonic plague, the dread, flea-borne disease which wiped out a quarter of Europe's population in the Middle Ages...
Rose, 51, who has produced everything from a flea circus to opera, had an operation last month. After that, he gave up his syndicated newspaper column ("I've still got . . . a skinful of ache"), and is closing his Manhattan nightclub, the Diamond Horseshoe. But last week he was eager to get on with his new job. His only previous TV experience has been in an advisory capacity on the half-hour Billy Rose Show (Tues. 9 p.m., ABC), a frequently effective dramatic series directed by Broadway's talented Jed Harris (The Front Page, Our Town, The Heiress...