Word: gigging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solutions (one red, one white) developed by her partner, Biochemist Irwin J. Bash. The solutions, says Bash, make the scalp unpalatable to the fungus. Some of the satisfied customers who believe that their scalps have been de-fungused and re-haired by Stenz & Bash: Cinemactors Jimmy Stewart, Dick Powell, Gig Young, Gene Kelly...
...example. Most of this dialogue concerns the two loves of Bette, who here plays Katherine Marlowe, a modern and conscientious novelist. The first is the husband of her best friend (Miriam Hopkins) who "turns out her novels on a sausage grinder." The second is a dapper young man (Gig Young) whom she loses to Miriam's daughter. This latter part of the plot is weakened by its dependence on Gig Young's looks instead of on a character, and throughout the picture Miriam Hopkins has difficulty in making her role convincing. Even with these defects, however, the picture can command...
Hurry. In Gig Harbor, Wash., firemen roared to a small blaze, scrambled off the truck, attached the hose-one end to one hydrant, the other to another. While they struggled to get things straight, a bystander put the fire...
...pinafores and pantalettes, its little boys in jackets and Buster Brown collars. They read McGuffey readers, wrote on slates, drank water from dippers. Bearded teachers brandished canes at boys in dunce caps. A gentleman impersonating an old-time school trustee drove up to P.S. 15, The Bronx, in a gig. The city's schoolchildren were so bored they didn't even giggle...
...second line is on an almost equal par with the first. Juniors Rog Hozen, and Scotty McLennan have teamed up with Sophomore Gig Carton to spark the attack in recent games. Murdoch may also use a third line of big George Seabury, Nick Franchot, and Ed Toland, with the latter likely to get a chance to operate in the first combination...