Word: fobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their daughters," says Thornton), his wife read Yeats and Maeterlinck for their beauty. Mr. Wilder was always fearful for his children's spiritual safety, and was forever lecturing them on how to defend themselves against a wicked world. "Now, dear boy," he would say, twirling his amethyst watch fob, "even if you are at a bishop's table and you are served wine, I want you inconspicuously to turn down the glass." ("He meant 'conspicuously,' " Thornton smiles...
...costs. Then, moving on to Paducah, Ky., the Stevenson party stopped off to visit "Angles,".home of Veep Alben Barkley, who served 140 fried chickens and eleven hams to his guests. During lunch at Angles, Stevenson was presented with a trophy of the 1892 presidential campaign-a watch-fob bearing the pictures of Democrat Grover Cleveland and his vice presidential running mate, Stevenson's grandfather. The giver, a Paducah lawyer, explained that he had had the watch fob for 60 years and he wanted Stevenson to keep it for another 60. "And when I get through with it." quipped...
...Gift of the Magi (0. Henry's most popular story) about a poor bookkeeper (Farley Granger) who sells his gold watch to buy a set of jeweled combs for his wife (Jeanne Grain) for Christmas, while she sells her beautiful hair to buy him a platinum watch fob; The Last Leaf, in which an unsuccessful artist (Gregory Ratoff) paints his masterpiece to keep a dying girl (Anne Baxter) alive; The Clarion Call, about a cop with a conscience (Dale Robertson) who has to arrest an old chum (Richard Widmark...