Word: foams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assigned to play the goddess of love in One Touch of Venus, Sculptor Joseph Nicolosi was commissioned to do a statue of her. She began posing for him in a two-piece bathing suit, but he found that this interfered with his artist's conception of the foam-born one, so Ava obligingly removed the bathing-suit top. This, said Nicolosi, after working for a while, was better, but still not satisfactory. So Ava rolled the bottom of the suit down to G-string size, and Nicolosi turned out a magnificent, realistic statue. When a studio bigwig...
...Norway. Off the northern tip of Denmark, a fierce storm blew up; Long Henry began to wallow like a waterlogged dinosaur. For an instant his long steel neck shot high above the waves, as if to get a last look at the shore; then, in a whirlpool of foam, he capsized and plunged to the bottom, taking with him one French sailor...
...Thing rocketed straight out from the brink of the falls, dropped into foam, bounced into view once or twice, then vanished in the mist. A few minutes later it bobbed free of the boiling water, just as Hill had predicted, but it had been broken to a tangled, shapeless mass. Hill was gone. His mangled body was recovered 16 hours later near the pier of the famed Maid of the Mist sightseeing boat...
...Eugene, Ore., the Big Y store installed four "Rest-a-Checks" at the checkout stations so that customers could take it easy while waiting to pay bills. The Rest-a-Check is a circular turntable divided into three sections, each with a foam-rubber seat big enough to hold three people. When the check-out clerk is ready, he presses a lever which rotates the seats in merry-go-round fashion; the customer pays sitting down...
...British notions, have won Iddon the Fleet Street title of "Britain's Walter Winchell." Since 1943, bumptious Reporter Iddon ("let's face it, I'm a terrific egotist") has been doing his diary the way his bosses and readers seem to like it-by skimming the foam from the U.S. scene...