Word: goat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Mass is the Catholic Mass inverted,' 'the spokesman explained. "The Lord's Prayer is recited backwards, inverted black crosses are used, there are blasphemous plays on words a load is baptized, and a goat stands by for atmosphere...
Rabid animal lovers will immensely enjoy watching Jerry Lewis in his and Dean Martin's latest film, Sailor Beware. He bounces like a kangaroo, twitches like a horse, warbles like a rooster and talks like a nanny goat. Non-zoophiles, however, will find Lewis' prancing decreasingly funny as the picture goes...
...loudest talker was Frank Shields, non-playing captain of the losing U.S. Davis Cup team. Shields had ignored Savitt in the Davis Cup matches, had put his confidence in aging (30) Ted Schroeder (ranked No. 7), who turned out to be the goat of the series. Shields was intent on keeping Savitt ranked right where he was, at No. 3. Cried Shields: "Never once in the past three months has Savitt looked like a champion. Not only that, but he was not the most cooperative player in the world while we were in Australia, and his sounding off brought discredit...
Hailed as a great man and a boon to the nation, Lanza drank deep of fame-and promptly became intoxicated. He announced that he was preparing to graft new limbs on infantile-paralysis victims. Soon, he declared, he would show preliminary examples of similar radical grafts, including a goat with donkey's legs, a sheep with dog's legs, a chicken with a pigeon's head, a dove with rabbit's ears and a rabbit with dove's wings. No gonkey, shog, or picken turned up, but Lanza did give newsmen a brief, none...
...party in her Capri villa, Gracie (The Biggest Aspidistra in the World) Fields, durable (53) darling of the British music halls, stood by her Christmas tree to croon a little ditty ("I'm an old goat, but I'm so in love with him"). Then she surprised her guests with the announcement that she plans to marry again. Her third husband-to-be: a 48-year-old Bessarabian-born engineer and radio repairman named Alperovici, whom she calls simply "Honest Boris." "The only thing Boris cannot do," said Gracie, "is sing. We went for a walk this morning...