Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scion of an old Virginia fox-hunting family, Marine Corps Commandant Lemuel Cornicle Shepherd Jr., 58, took a day off from his official duties, rode off across the Virginia hills with a Warrenton hunt. The chase went merrily until General Shepherd's horse stepped in a hole and took a header. Although he rolled clear of his mount, much-wounded (four Purple Hearts) Marine Shepherd got up with a broken collarbone, was mending nicely at week...
...Ohio lady named Mrs. Martha Goodman, who lives in the village of Union City (pop. 1,500), dropped a note to ailing Pope Pius XII telling him two old-fashioned home cures for hiccups. Mrs. Goodman's first remedy: breathing into a sealed paper bag through a hole cut to fit the hiccupper's mouth-a prescription she once got from a doctor. She also mentioned her own time-tested therapy, "even better than that of the doctor": repeatedly emptying the lungs by exhaling in long drawn-out breaths. Last week, good Presbyterian Goodman got a letter from...
Three-Ring Circus (Paramount) has Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis selling frozen custard at the circus. Customers crowd around. All at once the bung blows out of the custard vat. Splat! Barrages of goo go glugging in all directions. Jerry tries to plug the hole with his fist. Fffffttt! His feet go silly on the slimy stuff, and down he slathers. "Helpfllgrrulp!" As he opens his mouth to holler, a stream of sweet bilge hoses down his esophagus. In a matter of seconds everybody in sight is wallowing gloriously in orange muck, and the whole scene looks like nothing...
...since childhood, or about the thrill of hunting without its element of cruelty, or just the great outdoors. Whatever its origin, the birding bug bites deep. Wives picture themselves dolefully as "birding widows." A golfer trying to wave his ball into the cup for an eagle at the 18th hole when the match depends on it is no more keyed up than the birder who trains his binoculars on a soaring raptor, trying by wishful thinking to turn a turkey vulture ("buzzard") into a golden eagle...
Mickey has worked business miracles. During the Depression the Lionel Corp., manufacturer of toy trains, was rescued from receivership by the prodigious sale (253,000 items) of a handcar carrying figures of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. The Ingersoll people were pulled out of a bad financial hole by a terrific run on their Mickey Mouse watches-of which more than 8,000,000 have been sold to date. Since 1929 Mickey's name or picture has appeared on 5,000 different lines of merchandise, from milk of magnesia to a $1,200 diamond bracelet to a radiator...