Word: loon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, a customer in a Detroit sa loon pointed at a slender, mustached young stranger and shouted: "That's John Wilkes Booth!" The stranger promptly drew a revolver, clouted the first man at hand and drove his boot into the belly of another. Then he backed out the door and dashed to the ferry. By putting his revolver to the ferry captain's head, he persuaded him to get started at once. Once on the Canadian side, he apologized for the "inconvenience," gave the captain $5 and walked...
...their troubles, RKO's owners were canvassing the field in search of someone willing to take the company off their hands. They got some encouragement. Matthew Fox, who made a fortune in movies before he got into such varied fields as toys (Bub-O-Loon) and international trade (TIME, July 19, 1948), was trying to make a deal. At week's end, Atlas Corp.'s President Floyd Odium, who sold RKO to Howard Hughes in the first place, also got into the act. He said he was looking into RKO to see whether he might...
...split-second; he uses light and shadow to reveal or conceal, as he wishes; and he seems to have spent a good deal of time on the sound effects for the film. They are no more than the wail of a distant siren, or the call of a loon on a lake, but they are immensely effective...
...Take four mixing-spoonfuls of Barbados molasses; two hen's eggs, or one loon's egg; one pint of creamy milk, or one pint of new-fallen snow which also has a rising virtue, and one pint of water. Beat this together...
...mediocrity. Unfortunately, the plot is just as mechanical as the casting: Star Glenn Ford gets a clever idea, the admirals give him the runaround, and then he makes a pass at the base chief's secretary. At length he succeeds in blowing up his own petty officer with a "Loon" while the band plays "For Those in Peril on the Sea." This maneuvering slows "Guided Missile" down to a dead walk near the end as Ford fights his way through various psychosomatic difficulties. Mired in "naval" cliches, this picture will be palatable only to rocket fanciers...