Word: long
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was nobody out here but me and the Indians," Lohman says. He rode hard and long, took personal charge of branding and altering calves, and every couple of years made the ten-day bullock-cart trip to Concepcion for supplies. He lived through the Chaco war (though the Bolivians bombed his ranch house) and Paraguay's innumerable revolutions...
...rather than the cure. Following up the work of doctors in Britain and India, Dr. Samuel A. Wolfson of Los Angeles came to a different conclusion: he showed that penicillin itself causes blackening of the tongue, may even cause the growth of black "hairs" up to half an inch long. Fortunately, the disorder clears up automatically after penicillin treatment is ended...
...current Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Wolfson describes a woman's tongue which had turned brownish-black; the tips of the taste buds had grown long and hairlike, and "bent like the nap of wet, heavy velvet when stroked with a tongue blade...
...Burning Glass. In Hollywood, which has long since proved its theory that even a flea can be taught to act a little, Elizabeth Taylor is a sure star of the future. Never has there been a time of such opportunity. For as age has dulled dozens of bright stars, custom has staled scores more. The public-though still attentive to such screen personalities as Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Errol Flynn, Irene Dunne, Greer Garson, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Mickey Rooney, Loretta Young-no longer rushes by the millions to see a picture merely because one of them...
...Rocks. One of the likeliest of these newcomers is Montgomery Clift, sometimes called "the hottest thing in Hollywood." Clift, 28, earned fine reviews on Broadway in The Skin of Our Teeth and The Searching Wind before he went to Hollywood. There he refused long-term contracts, picked scripts shrewdly. Last year, in his first two pictures-M-G-M's The Search and Howard Hawks's Red River-his good acting and good looks clicked immediately...