Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems to me that . . . Dr. Will Menninger's campaign to sell a regrettably oversold psychiatry to the U.S. public might better have won the story a Business head rather than Medicine...
...your assurance that Miss Judith Anderson has never considered "playing Medea naked from the waist up (as Euripides intended)" [TIME, Oct. 25], but I wish that you had given us your source of information as to Euripides' intentions. Since his Medea was played by a husky male whose head was encased in the huge mask-apparatus, whose stature was increased by the kothornos, and whose hieratic vestments excluded any suggestion or realism, it is difficult to imagine-except in terms of Salvador Dali-the effect which you suggest...
Q.E.D. In St. Joseph, Mo., Mrs. Ernestine McCurry, 72, tried hard but failed to prove to police that she was sober, by 1) standing on her head, 2) doing a fast tap-dance routine, 3) climbing her cell bars, hand-over-hand, to the ceiling...
Anybody in Exmore, Va. would have known that Melvin ("Bad Boy") Collins was a colored man who might try to blow your head off. He was 38 years old and had been in the big house twice for shooting scrapes. He had cut his own brother with a knife. But Bad Boy had left Virginia last month. He had headed north, and in the Negro district of Chester, Pa., nobody knew his reputation...
...first down on the 25. Three plays failed to make ground and Rossiter appeared to be trapped on his fourth down desperation pass attempt but he wriggled loose from several tacklers and threw a long, high, floppy pass to Harvey Guild who caught it over a Deacon defender's head deep in the end zone for a touchdown. Rossiter screen-passed for the extra point, making the halftime score...